Geopolitical Shakespeare - Western Entanglements From Internationalism to Cold War

In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in literary, cultural, political and diplomatic, legal, and economic attempts to articulate the tensions and opportunities of the early Cold War period.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• 1: Shakespearean Entanglements: From Einstein to Barbara Ward


• 2: Placing the House in Order: John Humphrey and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights


• 3: The Virtue of the Bench: The United States of America v Oswald Pohl et al


• 4: Economic Iron Curtains: Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Vivien Leigh


• 5: The Mystery in the Soul of State: Noel Annan and the Elizabethan Festival


• 6: A World Stage: An American Hamlet in Elsinore


• 7: Equality of Sacrifice: Graham Greene, V. S. Pritchett, and The Third Man


• 8: Mighty Opposites: Carl Schmitt and Salvador de Madariaga


• 9: Thinking What We Are Doing: W. H. Auden and Hannah Arendt


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Erica Sheen is Professor of Literature and Film at the University of York. She has worked at the Universities of Sheffield, Cambridge, and Oxford, where she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. She has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich, and research residencies at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York, the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri, and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.

Summary

In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in literary, cultural, political and diplomatic, legal, and economic attempts to articulate the tensions and opportunities of the early Cold War period.

Product details

• Authors: Erica Sheen, Erica (Professor of Literature and Film Sheen, Sheen Erica
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2024
• EAN: 9780198888611
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888861-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, The Cold War, Film Theory & Criticism, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Film history, theory or criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean