Shakespeare and Conflict

A European Perspective
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-34327-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4728 g

Reihe: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dente, C.

Soncini, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List Of Figures Acknowledgements Notes On Contributors Foreword; T.Hoenselaars General Introduction; C.Dente & S.Soncini PART I: CONFLICT IN SHAKESPEARE Introduction; P.Pugliatti 'What Country, Friends, Is This?': The Performance Of Conflict In Shakespeare's Drama Of Migration; S.Schülting Killing By The Book: Scenes From The Duel Ritual; P.Pugliatti The War Of 'Nothings' In The Tragedy Of King Lear; M.Grzegorzewska Conflict And Convergence In Shakespeare's Wordplay; G.Niagolov Stage And Conflict In The Phoenix And The Turtle; B.Drenkov PART II: CONFLICT THROUGH SHAKESPEARE Introduction; C.Dente Translating Shakespeare In Sociolinguistic Conflicts: A Preliminary European Study; J.Tronch-Pérez Shakespeare And The Continental Avant-Garde Through García Lorca's El Público (1930); J.F.Cerdá Negotiating The Memory Of The People's War: Hamlet And The Ghosts Of Welfare In A Diary For Timothy By Humphrey Jennings (1944-45); A.Marzola 'In The Fearful Armour': Shakespeare, Heiner Müller And The Wall; M.R.Gomes From Individual Conflict To Interlocking Conflicts: Performing The Merchant Of Venice For New European Audiences; F.Rayner Cut 'N' Mix King Lear: Second Generation And Asian-British Identities; A.Marino PART III: SHAKESPEARE IN TIMES OF CONFLICT Introduction; M.Pfister Work Of National Importance: Shakespeare In Dartmoor; C.Calvo 'The Play's The Thing': Hamlet In A Romanian Wartime Political Prison; M.Matei-Chesnoiu 'A Tongue In Every Wound Of Caesar': Performing Julius Caesar Behind Barbed Wire During The Second World War; T.Hoenselaars 'And, By Opposing, End Them': The Rhetoric Of Translators' Polemics; A.Cetera Shakespeare's Sonnets De Profundis; M.Pfister Selected Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

CLARA CALVO Professor of English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain
JUAN F. CERDÁ Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain
ANNA CETERA Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Warsaw, Poland
BORIS DRENKOV holds a PhD from the University of Munich, Germany
MA?GORZATA GRZEGORZEWSKA teaches English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
TON HOENSELAARS Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
ALESSANDRA MARINO Research Associate at The Open University, UK
ALESSANDRA MARZOLA Professor of English Literature at the University of Bergamo, Italy
MONICA MATEI-CHESNOIU Associate Professor of English Literature at Ovidius University Constanta, Romania
GEORGI NIAGOLOV teaches English Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the Department of British and American Studies at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria
MANFRED PFISTER formerly Professor of English at the Freie Universität Berlin and member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
PAOLA PUGLIATTI formerly Professor of English Literature at the University of Florence, Italy
MIGUEL RAMALHETE GOMES FCT Fellow
FRANCESCA RAYNER Assistant Professor at the Universidade do Minho, Portugal
SABINE SCHÜLTING Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
JESÚS TRONCH-PÉREZ Senior Lecturer at the University of Valencia, Spain