The Shakespeare Hut : a story of performance, memory and identity, 1916-1923 /

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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ferguson, Ailsa Grant (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Arden Shakespeare, [2019]
Series:	The Arden Shakespeare
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > 1800-1950. Shakespeare Hut (Bloomsbury, London, England) Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > England > London. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production > History > 20th century. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Anniversaries, etc. Great Britain. > Army. > Australian and New Zealand Army Corps > Military life. World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain > Theater and the war. Soldiers > Recreation > Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre events, 1910-12: festivity, bardolatry, (re)constructing "memory"
"What ho! For Shakespeare, when we get back to Blighty!": commemorating Shakespeare in wartime
Performing Englishness: the Shakespeare Hut for Anzacs
Performing femininity: women at the Shakespeare Hut
After the war, 1919-23
Epilogue: forgetting and "remembering" the Shakespeare Hut, 1924-2016: festivity, bardolatry and (re)constructing "memory".