Shakespeare in Cold War Europe
. Ed(S): Sheen, Erica; Karremann, Prof. Dr. Isabel
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Hardback. Editor(s): Sheen, Erica; Karremann, Prof. Dr. Isabel. Series: Global Shakespeares. Num Pages: 134 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 301 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
This essay collection examines the Shakespearian culture of Cold War Europe - Germany, France, UK, USSR, Poland, Spain and Hungary - from 1947/8 to the end of the 1970s. Written by international Shakespearians who are also scholars of the Cold War, the essays assembled here consider representative events, productions and performances as cultural politics, international diplomacy and sites of memory, and show how they inform our understanding of the political, economic, even military, dynamics of the post-war global order. The volume explores the political and cultural function of Shakespearian celebration and commemoration, but it also acknowledges the conflicts they generated ... Read more
This essay collection examines the Shakespearian culture of Cold War Europe - Germany, France, UK, USSR, Poland, Spain and Hungary - from 1947/8 to the end of the 1970s. Written by international Shakespearians who are also scholars of the Cold War, the essays assembled here consider representative events, productions and performances as cultural politics, international diplomacy and sites of memory, and show how they inform our understanding of the political, economic, even military, dynamics of the post-war global order. The volume explores the political and cultural function of Shakespearian celebration and commemoration, but it also acknowledges the conflicts they generated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
Series
Global Shakespeares
Number of Pages
122
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137519733
SKU
V9781137519733
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Ref
99-15
About . Ed(S): Sheen, Erica; Karremann, Prof. Dr. Isabel
Erica Sheen is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Film at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre: The Best in this Kind (Palgrave 2009). Other publications include co-edited volumes on Renaissance law and literature (2004) and David Lynch (2004). She is currently finishing a monograph on Cold War Shakespeare. Isabel ... Read more
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