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Shakespeare and the Second World War
Memory, Culture, Identity
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About this book
The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939ā1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Theatre, War, Memory, and Culture
- 1 German Shakespeare, the Third Reich, and the War
- 2 Shakespearean Negotiations in the Perpetrator Society: German Productions of The Merchant of Venice during the Second World War
- 3 Shylock, Palestine, and the Second World War
- 4 āCaesarās word against the worldā: Caesarism and the Discourses of Empire
- 5 Shakespeare and Censorship during the Second World War: Othello in Occupied Greece
- 6 āIn This Hour of History: Amidst These Tragic Eventsā ā Polish Shakespeare during the Second World War
- 7 Pasternakās Shakespeare in Wartime Russia
- 8 Shakespeare as an Icon of the Enemy Culture in Wartime Japan, 1937ā1945
- 9 āWarlike Noisesā: Jingoistic Hamlet during the Sino-Japanese Wars
- 10 Shakespeare, Stratford, and the Second World War
- 11 Rosalinds, Violas, and Other Sentimental Friendships: The Osiris Players and Shakespeare, 1939ā1945
- 12 Maurice Evansās G.I. Hamlet: Analogy, Authority, and Adaptation
- 13 The War at āHomeā: Representations of Canada and of the Second World War in Star Crossed
- 14 Shakespeareās Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz
- 15 Appropriating Shakespeare in Defeat: Hamlet and the Contemporary Polish Vision of War
- Appendix: List of Productions
- Contributors
- Index