Touring Shakespeare

Theatre and Post-War Cultural Diplomacy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Touring Shakespeare reveals how English Shakespeare companies were deployed overseas in service to British diplomatic interests at the end of Empire and the start of the Cold War. In exploring the politics behind the global dissemination of Shakespeare performed by prominent English theatre companies like the Old Vic and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Jim Taylor examines whether tours supported, contradicted, or ran adjacent to the broader diplomatic objectives they served. Peeling back layers of production and reception history in such diverse locations as Egypt, India, Nigeria, and Australia, his study discloses how the British state came to regard Shakespeare tours as an effective compensatory device for its loss of economic and political power overseas, and how the global Shakespeare myth was driven by British cultural institutions between 1939 and 1965.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-21
Mått157 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt545 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor266
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009381314

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Introduction: 1. Cultural diplomacy in the Mediterranean (1939–1946) Hamlet; 2. Re-colonisation in Australia (1948, 1953) Richard III and Othello; 3. The cultural cold war in Eastern Europe (1955, 1957) Titus Andronicus; 4. Decolonisation in Nigeria (1963) Macbeth; 5. Globalisation in South and Southeast Asia (1964–65): The Tempest, Richard II and The Taming of the Shrew; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'Taylor's Touring Shakespeare is an important book which offers an authoritative account of the way in which Shakespeare was used to advance the cause of British cultural diplomacy in the context of the end of empire and the advance of the Cold War. It is a masterful study, grounded in new archival work and providing fresh political and cultural insights on every page. A wonderful achievement.' Andrew Murphy, 1867 Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin