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840988
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Sawyer, Robert,1953-
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| Title & Author
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Shakespeare between the World Wars : : the Anglo-American sphere /\ Robert Sawyer.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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1 online resource (xi, 314 pages)
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| ISBN
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1137582189
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: 9781137582188
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1137590637
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9781137590633
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Author's Note on Cover Image; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Criticism in the UK: The Bard of Britannia; 1 Background; 2 Practically Shakespearean Criticism; 3 Empson and Ambiguity; 4 Scrutinizing Shakespeare; 5 Beyond Cambridge; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 3 Criticism in the USA: The Institutionalization of Shakespeare in the USA; 1 Background; 2 The Library as American Institution; 3 The Paradox of Shakespeare and the Institutionalization of New Criticism; 4 Conclusion
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4 Conclusion: Return to Elsinore and Re-presentationChapter 6 Conclusion: Transnational Shakespeare, Then and Now; 1 Transnational Shakespeare, 1920-1939; 2 Present Tense: Shakespeare, Brexit and the Election of Donald Trump; 3 Coda: The Shakespearean Sphere: Globalization and Glocalization; Works Cited; Index
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Chapter 4 Shakespeare Productions in the USA: The Voices and Sounds of America's Shakespeare1 Recording Innovation; 2 The Glorious Voice of Paul Robeson; 3 Othello; 4 Welles and Shakespeare; 5 "Voodoo" Macbeth; 6 "Fascist" Julius Caesar; 7 Conclusion; Chapter 5 Shakespeare Productions in the UK: A Sense of Return-"'Tis Here, 'Tis Here, 'Tis Gone"; 1 "Remembrance and Repetition"; 2 Troilus and Cressida: "War, Women, and 'Injurious Time'"; 3 A Return to Stratford: Komisarjevsky and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre or "Home Is Where the Art Is."
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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.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Appreciation.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Stage history-- 1800-1950.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.
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Literature and society-- History-- 20th century.
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World War, 1914-1918-- Literature and the war.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Literature and the war.
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Art appreciation.
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DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and society.
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War and literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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822.3/3
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| LC Classification
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PR2970.S502 2019
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