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This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice, Memorialising Shakespeare covers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt, and France, as well as Great Britain and the United States. Chapter authors discuss a broad range of commemorative activities-from pageants, dance, dramatic performances, and sculpture, to conferences, exhibitions, and more private acts of engagement, such as reading and diary writing. Themes covered include Shakespeare's role in the formation of cultural memory and national and global identities, as well as Shakespeare's relationship to decolonisation and race. A significant feature of the book is the inclusion of chapters from organisers of recent Shakespeare commemoration events, reflecting on their own practice. Together, the chapters in Memorialising Shakespeare show what has been at stake when communities, identity groups, and institutions have come together to commemorate Shakespeare.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Memorialising Shakespeare, Memorialising Ourselves; Monika Smialkowska and Edmund G. C. King.- 2. From Common Reader to Canon: Memorialising the Shakespeare-Reading Soldier during the First World War; Edmund G. C. King.- 3. A Greenwich Night's Dream: Shakespeare, Empire, and the Royal Navy in Post-Armistice Britain; Kurt Schreyer.- 4. Culture and Colonialism: The 1916 Tercentenary in Egypt; Karma Sami and Monika Smialkowska.- 5. Divergence and Convergence: The 'Universal' versus the National Bard; Irena R. Makaryk.- 6. French Shakespeare: From Victor Hugo to Patrice Chéreau; Dominique Goy-Blanquet.- 7. Canonising Cleopatra? Shakespeare400 and the Library, Lovers, and Saints of Alexandria; Katherine Hennessey.- 8. Citizen of the world, or citizen of nowhere? Shakespeare Lives in China in 2016; Duncan Lees.- 9. Commemorating Shakespeare through Dance and Music, 1964-2016; ElizabethKlett.- 10. Curating Shakespeare in the North; Adam Hansen.- 11. 'The Conceit of This Inconstant Stay': Exhibiting Shakespeares in Eugene, Oregon; Lara Bovilsky.- 12. Afterword; Ton Hoenselaars.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Edmund G. C. King is a Lecturer in English at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. A book historian with a speciality in the history of reading, his published work has appeared in
Shakespeare (2014),
Book History (2013), the
Yearbook of English Studies (2015)
, and
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (2016).
Monika Smialkowska is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Northumbria University, UK. Her current research interests lie in post-renaissance adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare. Her published work has appeared in
Critical Survey (2010),
Shakespeare (2011, 2014),
The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare,
Volume Two: The World's Shakespeare, 1660-Present (2016), and
Shakespeare in the North: Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland (2021).
Bericht
Edmund G. C. King and Monika Smialkowska s volume is both timely and very welcome. The editors have done an excellent job of assembling a set of contributors who come at the business of memorialization from a variety of different perspectives . The volume is comprehensive, wide-ranging, and substantial. King and Smialkowska are to be highly commended for producing this immensely valuable contribution to Shakespeare Studies. (Andrew Murphy, Modern Language Review, Vol. 120 (1), January, 2025)
