Celebrating Shakespeare : commemoration and cultural memory /
On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events, such as the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Se...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Shakespeare and commemoration Coppélia Kahn and Clara Calvo; 1. David Garrick: saints, temples and jubilees Peter Holland; 2. Commemorating Shakespeare in performance: Betterton and Irving Richard Schoch; 3. Relic, pageant, sunken wrack: remembering Shakespeare in 1816 Adrian Poole; 4. Remembrance of things past: Shakespeare 1851, 1951, 2012 Graham Holderness; 5. Remembering Shakespeare in India: colonial and postcolonial memory Supriya Chaudhuri; 6. Shakespeare at the Vatican, 1964 Marta Cerezo; 7. Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864 Douglas M. Lanier; 8. Shakespeare's rising: Ireland and the tercentenary Andrew Murphy; 9. Goblin's market: commemoration, anti-semitism and the invention of 'Global Shakespeare' in 1916 Gordon McMullan; 10. Performing commemoration in wartime: Shakespeare galas in London, 1916-19 Ailsa Grant-Ferguson; 11. Lest we forget: commemoration in Sydney and London, 1916 Philip Mead; 12. Brought up to date: Shakespeare in cartoons Clara Calvo; 13. Sculpted Shakespeare Ton Hoenselaars; 14. Gardening with Shakespeare Nicola J. Watson; 15. Anne Hathaway's cottage: myth, tourism, diplomacy Katherine West Scheil; Bibliography; Index.