Shakespeare''s Tercentenary - Staging Nations and Performing Identities in 1916

"The 1916 global commemorations of the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death responded to imperial and national identity crises during the First World War. This study juxtaposes patriotic uses of Shakespeare with decentralising, racially and socially empowering voices, illuminating Shakespeare's legacies in modern politics"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. 'Unser Shakespeare'? the tercentenary and Germany; 2. 'Our English Shakespeare'? the tercentenary and Britain; 3. Shakespeare among the Allies; 4. 'Not primarily patriotic'? the tercentenary and American national identity; 5. Voices from the margins: the tercentenary and American racial and ethnic minorities; Conclusion: lest we forget.

About the author

Monika Smialkowska is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Northumbria University. She is the co-editor (with Edmund G. C. King) of Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916–2016 (2021).

Product details

• Authors: Monika Smialkowska, Monika (Northumbria University Smialkowska
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009280877
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0928087-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, History of Performing Arts