Shakespeare's theatre of war
By: Nick De Somogyi.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Brookfield, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Military art and science.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Soldiers.; Military art and science in literature.; Military history in literature.; Soldiers in literature.; War in literature.
Other titles: Theatre of war
Description: In this thought-provoking book, Nick de Somogyi draws on a wide range of contemporary military literature (news-letters and war-treatises, maps and manuals), to demonstrate how deeply wartime experience influenced the production and reception of Elizabethan theatre. This book concludes with a sustained account of Hamlet, a play which both dramatizes the Elizabethan context of war-fever, and embodies in its three variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-291) and index.