Shakespeare and Commemoration

Clara Calvo is Professor of English at the University of Murcia (Spain). Her books include Power Relations and Fool-Master Discourse in Shakespeare (OPSL, 1991) and, with Jean Jacques Weber, The Literature Workbook (Routledge, 1998). With Jesus Tronch, she has edited The Spanish Tragedy for the Arden Early Modern Series (2013), and with Coppelia Kahn, Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She is currently the President of the Spanish and Portuguese English Renaissance Studies Association (SEDERI).Ton Hoenselaars teaches English Renaissance literature at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). Books include Shakespeare's History Plays (Cambridge, 2004) and Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (Arden, 2004). More recently, he published the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists (2012), Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (with Dirk Delabastita [John Benjamins, 2015]), and Shakespeare Forever! Leven en mythe, werk en erfenis (Wereldbibliotheek, 2017). He is currently completing a monograph on Shakespeare and World War I.

• Introduction: Shakespeare and the Cultures of CommemorationTon Hoenselaars and Clara CalvoChapter 1. Acting as an Epitaph: Performing Commemoration in the Shakespearean History PlayEmily ShortslefChapter 2. From Jubilee to Gala: Remembrance and Ritual CommemorationRobert SawyerChapter 3. Shakespeare RememberedGraham HoldernessChapter 4. American Shakespeare Clubs and CommemorationKatherine ScheilChapter 5. Shakespeare and 'Native Americans': Forging Identities through the 1916 Shakespeare TercentenaryMonika SmialkowskaChapter 6. The Disciplines of War, Memory, and Writing: Shakespeare's Henry V and David Jones's In ParenthesisAdrian PooleChapter 7. Monumental Play: Commemoration, Post-war Britain, and History CyclesAnita M. Hagerman