Shakespeare at War: A Material History - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1316517489 ISBN 13 : 9781316517482

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Presenting engaging, thought-provoking stories across centuries of military activity, this book demonstrates just how extensively Shakespeare's cultural capital has been deployed at times of national conflict. Drawing upon scholarly expertise in Shakespeare and War Studies, first-hand experience from public military figures and insights from world-renowned theatre directors, this is the first material history of how Shakespeare has been used in wartime. Addressing home fronts and battle fronts, the collection's broad chronological coverage encompasses the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence, the Napoleonic Wars, the Russian War, the First and Second World Wars, and the Iraq War. Each chapter reveals an archival object that tells us something about who 'recruited' Shakespeare, what they did with him, and to what effect. Richly illustrated throughout, the collection uniquely uncovers the agendas that Shakespeare has been enlisted to support (and critique) at times of great national crisis and loss.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Amy Lidster is a Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Authorships and Authority in Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts (Routledge, forthcoming). Her work has appeared widely in books and journals, including Old St Paul's and Culture (Palgrave, 2021), Shakespeare Survey, and Renaissance Drama. She is currently finishing Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict, a companion monograph linked to this edited collection, and preparing the introduction for the Oxford World's Classics edition of 1 Henry VI.

Sonia Massai is a Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. Her publications include Shakespeare's Accents (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which was CHOICE Best Academic Book 2021, and Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (Cambridge University Press, 2007). She has edited collections of essays about Hamlet (2021), Ivo van Hove (2018), Shakespeare and Textual Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and on World-Wide Shakespeares (2005), and critical editions of The Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (2014) and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2011). She is currently editing a new edition of Richard III and has been appointed General Editor of the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1316517489
• ISBN 13: 9781316517482
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Lidster Amy, Massai Sonia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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