Shakespeare S Theatre Of War

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Shakespeare S Theatre Of War

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Author : Nicholas de Somogyi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05

Shakespeare S Theatre Of War written by Nicholas de Somogyi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.

The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her military support to the Dutch wars against Spain) and 1604 (when James at last brought it to an end) was one in which English life was preoccupied by the menace and actuality of war. The same period spans English drama’s coming of age, from Tamburlaine to Hamlet. In this thought-provoking book, Nick de Somogyi draws on a wide range of contemporary military literature (news-letters and war-treatises, maps and manuals), to demonstrate how deeply wartime experience influenced the production and reception of Elizabethan theatre. In a series of vivid parallels, the roles of soldier and actor, the setting of battlefield and stage, and the context of playhouse and muster are shown to have been rooted in the common experience of war. The local armoury served as a props department; the stage as a military lecture-hall. News from the front line has always been shrouded in the fog of war. Shakespeare’s Rumour is here seen as kindred to such equally dubious messengers as his Armado, Falstaff or Pistol; soldiers have always told tall tales, military ghost-stories that are here shown to have seeped into such narratives as The Spanish Tragedy and Henry V. This book concludes with a sustained account of Hamlet, a play which both dramatises the Elizabethan context of war-fever, and embodies in its three variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production. By affording scrutiny to each of its title’s components, Shakespeare’s Theatre of War provides a compelling argument for reassessing the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within the enduring context of the military culture and wartime experience of his age.

War And Nation In The Theatre Of Shakespeare And His Contemporaries

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Author : Simon Barker
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-21

War And Nation In The Theatre Of Shakespeare And His Contemporaries written by Simon Barker and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.

This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The book contrasts the Tudor and Stuart prose that called for the establishment of a standing army in the name of nation, discipline and subjectivity, and the drama of the period that invited critique of this imperative. Barker examines contemporary dramatic texts both for their radical position on war and, in the case of the later drama, for their subversive commentary on an emerging idealisation of Shakespeare and his work.The book argues that the early modern period saw the establishment of political, social and theological attitudes to war that were to become accepted as natural in succeeding centuries. Barker's reading of the drama of the period reveals the discontinuities in this project as a way of commenting on the use of the past within modern warfare. The book is also a survey and analysis of literary theory over the last tw

Shakespeare And War

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Author : R. King
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-10-14

Shakespeare And War written by R. King and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-14 with Literary Criticism categories.

A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North America and Australia. The book ranges from Shakespeare's use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public by an English mercenary, to reflections on the ways in which Shakespeare has been represented in Nazi Germany, wartime Denmark, or cold war Romania.

Shakespeare And The Second World War

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Author : Irene Rima Makaryk
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01

Shakespeare And The Second World War written by Irene Rima Makaryk and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Drama categories.

Shakespeare's works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society's self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this 'universal' author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.

Touring Shakespeare

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Author : Jim Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024

Touring Shakespeare written by Jim Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Cold War categories.

"Exploring the politics behind English Shakespeare's global dissemination throughout the mid-twentieth century, Touring Shakespeare reveals a wealth of new historical evidence informing current debates on Shakespearean soft power, globalisation, and decolonisation. It will prove stimulating for researchers of Shakespeare and Cold War history alike"--

Shakespeare And The Just War Tradition

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Author : Paola Pugliatti
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01

Shakespeare And The Just War Tradition written by Paola Pugliatti and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.

Shakespeare Between The World Wars

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Author : Robert Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-02-06

Shakespeare Between The World Wars written by Robert Sawyer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-06 with Literary Criticism categories.

Shakespeare Between the World Wars draws parallels between Shakespearean scholarship, criticism, and production from 1920 to 1940 and the chaotic years of the Interwar era. The book begins with the scene in Hamlet where the Prince confronts his mother, Gertrude. Just as the closet scene can be read as a productive period bounded by devastation and determination on both sides, Robert Sawyer shows that the years between the World Wars were equally positioned. Examining performance and offering detailed textual analyses, Sawyer considers the re-evaluation of Shakespeare in the Anglo-American sphere after the First World War. Instead of the dried, barren earth depicted by T. S. Eliot and others in the 1920s and 1930s, this book argues that the literary landscape resembled a paradoxically fertile wasteland, for just below the arid plain of the time lay the seeds for artistic renewal and rejuvenation which would finally flourish in the later twentieth century.

Shakespeare In Time Of War Excerpts From The Plays Arranged With Topical Allusion

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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-15

Shakespeare In Time Of War Excerpts From The Plays Arranged With Topical Allusion written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with History categories.

Shakespeare In Time Of War

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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-04-27

Shakespeare In Time Of War written by William Shakespeare and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-27 with categories.

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Shakespeare And The Second World War

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Author : Irena Makaryk
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2012-09-18

Shakespeare And The Second World War written by Irena Makaryk and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Drama categories.

Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society’s self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this ‘universal’ author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.