{"product_id":"wartime-shakespeare-performing-narratives-of-conflict-hardback-9781009356060","title":"Wartime Shakespeare; Performing Narratives of Conflict (Hardback) 9781009356060","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWartime Shakespeare\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePerforming Narratives of Conflict\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst transhistorical monograph to examine and theorize how Shakespeare has been mobilized in performance during wartime.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmy Lidster (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009356060, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In considering the history of Shakespeare during wartime across the centuries, Lister delivers a necessary, detailed exploration and at the same time contributes to the larger conversation as to the why of the Bard's sustained legacy. Highly recommended.' A. P. Pennino, CHOICE\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is the first book-length, interdisciplinary study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized in performance at times of conflict spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It sets out a brand-new critical methodology that recognizes how wartime theatre is mediated by networks of production and reception that control its meaning and impact. Performances of Shakespeare's plays, like the texts themselves, do not have single or fixed meanings, and one production context often brings together conflicting agendas and responses. Amy Lidster explains how differing productions of Shakespeare shed light on issues at the heart of conflicts and negotiate concepts such as patriotism, commemoration, and propaganda. With wide-ranging transhistorical coverage, she argues that wartime Shakespeare is defined by its malleability and plural (mis)understandings, which determine its power to shape the experience of war, the political issues at stake during a period of crisis, and the construction of narratives of conflict.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: a history of wartime production and reception\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Royal Shakespeare: Commemorating conflict during the Seven Years' War (1756-63)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Shakespeare as propaganda: British military performances during the American revolutionary war (1775-83)\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Patriotic' Shakespeare and dialectics of conflict during the French revolutionary-Napoleonic wars (1792-1815)\u003cbr\u003e Interlude. Nostalgia, nation building and the Russian war (1853-56)\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: 4. Fragmenting Shakespeare(s) and the first world war (1914-18)\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'What we are fighting for': the state mobilization of Shakespeare during the second world war (1939-45)\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Anti-war' Shakespeare: just war theory, sponsorship, and the impact of theatre during the Iraq war (2003-11)\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: wartime Shakespeare – 'a playable surface'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413990404376,"sku":"9781009356060","price":72.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009356060i.jpg?v=1784334091","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wartime-shakespeare-performing-narratives-of-conflict-hardback-9781009356060","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}