Shakespeare and national culture

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Title:

Shakespeare and national culture

Author:

Joughin, John J.

ISBN:

9780719048883

9780719050510

Publication Information:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Physical 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.

10. Shakespeare, national culture and the lure of transnationalism / John J. Joughin. 11. Elizabethan world pictures / Curtis Breight -- Afterword / John Drakakis.

Personal Subject:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Appreciation-Foreign countries.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Study and teaching-Foreign countries.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Stage history-Foreign countries.

Subject Term:

National characteristics, English, in literature.

English drama -- Appreciation -- Foreign countries.

Civilization, Modern -- English influences.

Communication, International.

Nationalism in literature.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- In literature.

Added Author:

Joughin, John J.

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Summary

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 legions.