Shakespeare and the Second World War memory, culture, identity /
edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Marissa McHugh.
- Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).
- 1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations, portraits, digital file
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Theatre, War, Memory, and Culture / 1German Shakespeare, the Third Reich, and the War / 2 Shakespearean Negotiations in the Perpetrator Society: German Productions of The Merchant of Venice during the Second World War / 3 Shylock, Palestine, and the Second World War / 4 'Caesar's word against the world': Caesarism and the Discourses of Empire / 5 Shakespeare and Censorship during the Second World War: Othello in Occupied Greece / 6 'In This Hour of History: Amidst These Tragic Events' -- Polish Shakespeare during the Second World War / 7 Pasternak's Shakespeare in Wartime Russia / 8 Shakespeare as an Icon of the Enemy Culture in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945 / 9 'Warlike Noises': Jingoistic Hamlet during the Sino-Japanese Wars / 10 Shakespeare, Stratford, and the Second World War / 11 Rosalinds, Violas, and Other Sentimental Friendships: The Osiris Players and Shakespeare, 1939-1945 / 12 Maurice Evans's G.I. Hamlet : Analogy, Authority, and Adaptation / 13The War at 'Home': Representations of Canada and of the Second World War in Star Crossed / 14 Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz / 15 Appropriating Shakespeare in Defeat: Hamlet and the Contemporary Polish Vision of War / Appendix: List of Productions. Irena R. Makaryk -- Werner Habicht -- Zeno Ackermann -- Mark Bayer -- Nancy Isenberg -- Tina Krontiris -- Krystyna Kujawin Courtney -- Aleksei Semenenko -- Ryuta Minami -- Alexander C.Y. Huang -- Simon Barker -- Peter Billingham -- Anne Russell -- Marissa Mchugh -- Tibor Egervari -- Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams --
The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939--1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.