Shakespeare and national culture / edited by John J. Joughin.
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...
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Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press,
1997.
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Table of 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.