Title: Shakespeare's theatre of war
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Knowledge, War in literature, Military history in literature, Characters, Military art and science in literature, Soldiers, Military art and science, Soldiers in literature, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, knowledge and learning, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, characters, Criticism and interpretation, Guerre dans la littérature, DRAMA, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, History, Literature, Mass media, Performing arts, Knowledge and learning
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
LC classification: PR3069.M5 D4 1998