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Amy Lidster

Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict

Cambridge University Press 2023,

112,00 €

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(Roma, Italia)

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Autor
Amy Lidster
Editores
Cambridge University Press 2023
Materia
Shakespeare
Descripción
H
Sobrecubierta
No
Conservación
Nuevo
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Copia autógrafa
No
Primera edición
No

Descripción

8vo, hardcover, 309pp. This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized in performance at times of conflict spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It sets out a brand-new critical methodology that recognizes how wartime theatre is mediated by networks of production and reception that control its meaning and impact. Performances of Shakespeare's plays, like the texts themselves, do not have single or fixed meanings, and one production context often brings together conflicting agendas and responses. Amy Lidster explains how differing productions of Shakespeare shed light on issues at the heart of conflicts and negotiate concepts such as patriotism, commemoration, and propaganda. With wide-ranging transhistorical coverage, she argues that wartime Shakespeare is defined by its malleability and plural (mis)understandings, which determine its power to shape the experience of war, the political issues at stake during a period of crisis, and the construction of narratives of conflict.