Antipodal Shakespeare Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016

by McMullan, Gordon; Mead, Philip; Ferguson, Ailsa Grant; Houhlahan, Mark; Flaherty, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781474271431
• ISBN10: 147427143X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-09-21
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Summary

In this collaborative monograph, six scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916, in two hemispheres. They argue that it was at this moment of remembering that 'global Shakespeare' first emerged in recognizable, if embryonic form.

Despite a recent surge of interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered. In in addressing this the book offers new materials and discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the Tercentenary celebrations in Britain and in Australia and New Zealand, and reflects also on the long legacy of those celebrations.

Author Biography

Gordon McMullan, is Professor of English at King's College London, UK.
Philip Mead is Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1:'Goblin's market: Israel Gollancz, the 1916 Tercentenary, and the invention of “global Shakespeare”'
reflections I
Chapter 2: 'The Shakespeare Hut: Anzac meets Shakespeare in London, 1916'
reflections II
Chapter 3:'Oblivion and Memory: New Zealand Inside the Shakespeare Hut (and Beyond), 1916'
reflections III
Chapter 4: 'The Afterlife of a Memorial'
reflections IV
Chapter 5: '”Remembering with Advantages”: Henry V and the play of commemorative rhetoric in Australia'
After Word: 'Memory, Architecture, Space'
Notes
Bibliography
Index