Celebrating Shakespeare
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Celebrating Shakespeare

Commemoration and Cultural Memory

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Celebrating Shakespeare

Commemoration and Cultural Memory

About this book

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events - such as the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Second Vatican Council of 1964 and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to express political agendas. In the USA, commemoration in 1864 counted on him to symbolise unity transcending the Civil War, while the First World War pulled the 1916 anniversary celebration into the war effort, enlisting Shakespeare as patriotic poet. The essays also consider how the dream of Shakespeare as a rural poet took shape in gardens, how cartoons challenged the poet's élite status and how statues of him mutated into advertisements for gin and Disney cartoons. Richly varied illustrations supplement these case studies of the diverse, complex and contradictory aims of memorialising Shakespeare.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Shakespeare and commemoration
  10. Chapter 1 David Garrick: saints, temples and jubilees
  11. Chapter 2 Commemorating Shakespeare in performance: Betterton and Irving
  12. Chapter 3 Relic, pageant, sunken wrack: Shakespeare in 1816
  13. Chapter 4 Remembrance of things past: Shakespeare 1851, 1951, 2012
  14. Chapter 5 Remembering Shakespeare in India: colonial and postcolonial memory
  15. Chapter 6 Shakespeare at the Vatican, 1964
  16. Chapter 7 Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864
  17. Chapter 8 Shakespeare’s rising: Ireland and the 1916 Tercentenary
  18. Chapter 9 Goblin’s market: commemoration, anti-semitism and the invention of ‘global Shakespeare’ in 1916
  19. Chapter 10 Performing commemoration in wartime: Shakespeare galas in London, 1916-19
  20. Chapter 11 Lest we forget: Shakespeare tercentenary commemoration in Sydney and London, 1916
  21. Chapter 12 Brought up to date: Shakespeare in cartoons
  22. Chapter 13 Sculpted Shakespeare
  23. Chapter 14 Gardening with Shakespeare
  24. Chapter 15 Anne Hathaway’s Cottage: myth, tourism, diplomacy
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index