Wartime Shakespeare : performing narratives of conflict / Amy Lidster.
| Author/creator | Lidster, Amy author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023. |
| Description | 324 pages |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : a history of wartime production and reception -- Royal Shakespeare : commemorating conflict during the Seven Years' War (1756-63) -- Shakespeare as propaganda : British military performances during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) -- 'Patriotic' Shakespeare and dialectics of conflict during the French Revolutionary-Napoleonic wars (1792-1815) -- Interlude : nostalgia, nation building and the Russian War (1853-56) -- Fragmenting Shakespeare(s) and the First World War (1914-18) -- 'What we are fighting for' : the state mobilization of Shakespeare during the Second World War (1939-45) -- 'Anti-war' Shakespeare : just war theory, sponsorship, and the impact of theatre during the Iraq War (2003-11) -- Conclusion : wartime Shakespeare -- 'a playable surface'. |
| Abstract | "This is the first sustained study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized during conflicts spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It draws on interdisciplinary research to develop an innovative critical methodology that reveals the creativity and diversity of wartime theatre production and its variable impacts"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lidster, Amy, 1986- Wartime Shakespeare Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781009356053 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2023016426 |
| ISBN | 9781009356060 |
| ISBN | 1009356062 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |