The Shakespeare Hut

A Story of Memory, Performance and Identity, 1916-1923

Ailsa Grant Ferguson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-17120-6 (ISBN)

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This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916, the Hut was to be the only built memorial to mark Shakespeare’s Tercentenary in the midst of war. With a purpose-built performance space, its tiny stage hosted the biggest theatrical stars of the age.

The Hut is a vivid and unique case study in cultural memory and performance of Shakespeare. One extraordinary building brings together Shakespeare’s place in First World War theatre, in emerging new post-colonial identities, the story of Shakespearean performance in the twentieth century and in the struggle for women’s suffrage.

Grant Ferguson transports you to the Hut and its lively, idiosyncratic world. From a feminist-led stage to a hub of Indian intellectual and political debate, from a Shakespeare memorial to an Anzac social club, this is the story of a building truly at a crossroads.

Ailsa Grant Ferguson is Principal Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Gordon McMullan and Philip Mead

Introduction

Chapter one
Prologue: The Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre events, 1910-12: Festivity, bardolatry, (re)constructing ‘memory’

Chapter two
“What Ho! For Shakespeare, when we get back to Blighty!”: Commemorating Shakespeare in wartime

Chapter three
Performing Englishness: The Shakespeare Hut for Anzacs

Chapter four
Performing femininity: Women at the Shakespeare Hut

Chapter five
After the War, 1919-23

Chapter six
Epilogue: Forgetting and ‘Remembering’ the Shakespeare Hut, 1924-2016: Festivity, bardolatry and (re)constructing ‘memory’

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	8 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	281 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-17120-4 / 1350171204
ISBN-13	978-1-350-17120-6 / 9781350171206
Zustand	Neuware