Shakespeare Between the World Wars

The Anglo-American Sphere

Robert Sawyer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2019
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-59063-3 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare Between the World Wars draws parallels between Shakespearean scholarship, criticism, and production from 1920 to 1940 and the chaotic years of the Interwar era. The book begins with the scene in Hamlet where the Prince confronts his mother, Gertrude. Just as the closet scene can be read as a productive period bounded by devastation and determination on both sides, Robert Sawyer shows that the years between the World Wars were equally positioned. Examining performance and offering detailed textual analyses, Sawyer considers the re-evaluation of Shakespeare in the Anglo-American sphere after the First World War. Instead of the dried, barren earth depicted by T. S. Eliot and others in the 1920s and 1930s, this book argues that the literary landscape resembled a paradoxically fertile wasteland, for just below the arid plain of the time lay the seeds for artistic renewal and rejuvenation which would finally flourish in the later twentieth century.

Robert Sawyer is Professor of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University, USA, where he teaches Shakespeare, Victorian Literature, and Literary Criticism. Author of Marlowe and Shakespeare: The Critical Rivalry (Palgrave 2017) and Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare (2003), he is also co-editor of Shakespeare and Appropriation (1999) and Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare (Palgrave 2001).

Chapter 1: "Introduction."-. Chapter 2: Criticism in the UK: "The Bard of Britannia.".- Chapter 3: Criticism in the US: "The Institutionalization of Shakespeare in the United States.".- Chapter 4: Shakespeare Productions in the US: "The Voices and Sounds of America's Shakespeare.".- Chapter 5: Shakespeare Productions in the UK: "A Sense of Return: 'Tis here, 'tis here, 'tis gone.".- Chapter 6: Conclusion: "Transnational Shakespeare: Then and Now.".

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 314 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-137-59063-7 / 1137590637
ISBN-13	978-1-137-59063-3 / 9781137590633
Zustand	Neuware