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Shakespeare and national culture

Author: John J Joughin
Publisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. There is, and was, a German Shakespeare (East and West); there is the contested legacy of a colonial Shakespeare in former British possessions; there is the post-national Shakespeare who has become the focus of debates concerning multiculturalism. Shakespeare has often been co-opted to  Read more...
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Named Person: William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John J Joughin
ISBN: 0719048885 9780719048883 0719050510 9780719050510
OCLC Number: 35192205
Description: ix, 351 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction / John J. Joughin --
Pt. I. Shakespeare's English. 1. Shakespeare's England: Britain's Shakespeare / Graham Holderness and Andrew Murphy. 2. Re-loading the canon: Shakespeare and the study guides / Simon Barker. 3. NATO's pharmacy: Shakespeare by prescription / Richard Wilson --
Pt. II. Contesting the colonial. 4. 'This sceptred isle': Shakespeare and the British problem / Willy Maley. 5. Shakespearian transformations / Ania Loomba. 6. Whose things of darkness? Reading/representing The Tempest in South Africa after April 1994 / Martin Orkin --
Pt. III. Shakespeare at the heart of Europe. 7. A divided heritage: conflicting appropriations of Shakespeare in (East) Germany / Robert Weimann. 8. Past and present Shakespeares: Shakespearian appropriations in Europe / Thomas Healy. 9. Nationalism, nomadism and belonging in Europe / Coriolanus Francis Baker --
Pt. IV. Shakespeare and transnational culture.
Responsibility: edited by John J. Joughin.

Abstract:

Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. There is, and was, a German Shakespeare (East and West); there is the contested legacy of a colonial Shakespeare in former British possessions; there is the post-national Shakespeare who has become the focus of debates concerning multiculturalism. Shakespeare has often been co-opted to serve nationalism yet it has also served to contest and transform it in complex and contradictory ways. The examples are legion. In situating the question of Shakespeare and national culture in its global perspective this volume draws together original essays by the leading scholars in the field.
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