Shakespeare and modernism
By: Cary DiPietro.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521845397
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1800-1950.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- England.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.; Modernism (Literature) -- England.
Description: "Artists and writers in early twentieth-century England engaged in a variety of ways with the cultural traditions of Shakespeare as a means of defining and relating what they understood to be their own unique historical experience. In Shakespeare and Modernism, Cary, DiPietro expands upon the established studies of this field by uncovering the connections and contexts which unite a broad range of cultural practices, from theatrical and book production, including that of Edward Gordon Craig and Harley Granville-Barker, to literary constructions of Shakespeare by high modernists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Shakespeare revolution; title: Sex, lies and historical fictions; title: The theatre and a changing civilization; title: Shakespeare's text in performance, circa 1923; title: How many children had Virginia Woolf?