Author: Fiona Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898609
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

Author: Simon Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521611930
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Professor Williams focuses on the classical period of German literature and theatre, when Shakespeare's plays were first staged in Germany in a relatively complete form, and when they had a potent influence on the writings of German drama and dramatic criticism.

Author: Henry Arthur Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patriotism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Rodney Symington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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For the Nazis, Shakespeare was a major cultural icon, whose works belonged to German culture more than to English and were therefore to be exploited for political-propagandistic purposes like those of any other German classical writer. Following an overview of the importance of Shakespeare in German culture, this book's three major sections investigate the controversy over the appropriate translation Shakespeare's plays to be read and performed, the effect of the new political-cultural climate on Shakespeare-scholarship, and the attempts of the Nazis to co-ordinate Shakespeare's works on the stage for propagandistic ends. This is the first complete study, entirely in English, to present the total picture of Shakespeare's fortunes in Germany between 1933 and 1945 in the context of Nazi cultural policy.

Author: Albert Cohn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Albert Cohn
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Alois Brandl
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Henry Arthur Jones
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333565817
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Excerpt from Shakespeare and Germany And this is the poet whom Germans claim as their own, and delight to honour with a tercentenary celebra tion - the poet who ignores them except on two marked occasions, when he stops and turns aside from his dramatic beat to abuse and insult them! Surely when they have examined him a little more closely they will give second thoughts a chance and cancel their Shake speare anniversary festival. Why should they honour and fete him when he discovers such a cordial antipathy to his hosts, and is so evidently determined to make things unpleasant at his own birthday party? It shows a new and unsuspected vein of rare generosity in the German character, thus to honour and kindly treat their enemy. Why should they do it? Except that after the war they may be able to boast that they treated with magnanimity at least one hapless Englishman who fell into their hands. But can the Germans suppose that if Shakespeare were alive to-day, he would use them ex cept for his wash-pot, and to cast over them the shoe of his angry derision? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Roy Pascal
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Irena Makaryk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442698381
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society’s self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this ‘universal’ author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.