Shakespeare and Conflict [electronic resource] : A European Perspective /
Dente, C.editor.
Soncini, S.editor.
What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; General Introduction; Part I: Conflict in Shakespeare; 1 Introduction; 2 'What country, friends, is this?' The Performance of Conflict in Shakespeare's Drama of Migration; 3 Killing by the Book: Scenes from the Duel Ritual; 4 The War of 'Nothings' in The Tragedy of King Lear; 5 Conflict and Convergence in Shakespeare's Wordplay; 6 Stage and Conflict in 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'; Part II: Conflict through Shakespeare; 7 Introduction
8 Translating Shakespeare in Sociolinguistic Conflicts: A Preliminary European Study9 Shakespeare and the Continental Avant-Garde through García Lorca's El público (1930); 10 Negotiating the Memory of the 'People's War': Hamlet and the Ghosts of Welfare in A Diary for Timothy by Humphrey Jennings (1944-45); 11 'IN THE FEARFUL ARMOUR': Shakespeare, Heiner Müller and the Wall; 12 From Individual Conflict to Interlocking Conflicts: Performing The Merchant of Venice for New European Audiences; 13 Cut'n'mix King Lear: Second Generation and Asian-British Identities
Part III: Shakespeare in Times of Conflict14 Introduction; 15 Work of National Importance: Shakespeare in Dartmoor; 16 'The play's the thing': Hamlet in a Romanian Wartime Political Prison; 17 'A tongue in every wound of Caesar': Performing Julius Caesar behind Barbed Wire during the Second World War; 18 'And, by opposing, end them': The Rhetoric of Translators' Polemics; 19 Shakespeare's Sonnets de profundis; Select Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
British literature.
Poetry.
Performing arts.
Literature, Modern.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Performing Arts.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.