Shakespeare and European Politics

by Delabastita, Dirk; De Vos, Jozef; Fransen, Paul; Hoenselaars, Ton

• ISBN13: 9780874130041
• ISBN10: 0874130042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Summary

This collection offers a selection of papers presented at a conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It reflects a new trend in Shakespeare studies: a tendency to study Shakespeare not just in his own historical or national contexts, but also as a cultural phenomenon with an international afterlife, transmitted in a variety of languages, first of all in Europe.The volume explores how, for 400 years, Shakespeare has played a major role in a European framework, particularly where political events and developments were concerned, such as the early modern wars of religion, the emergence of the nation state, the two World Wars, the process of European unification, the attack on the World Trade Center, and Britain's participation in the Iraq war. Dirk Delabastita is Professor of English literature and literary theory at the University of Namur. Jozef De Vos teaches English literature and theater history at Ghent University. Paul J. C. M. Franssen teaches British and South African literature at Utrecht University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
General Introduction	p. 13
Geography, History, and Politics
Introduction	p. 31
Making Shakespeare National	p. 36
Twenty-three Skidoo: Bringing Home the Bard	p. 56
"Here in Vienna": The Setting of Measure for Measure and the Political Semiology of Shakespeare's Europe	p. 74
Shakespeare, Joyce, and the Politics of European Traditions	p. 90
Politics and/on the Stage
Introduction	p. 105
Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Juan de Grimaldi: Cultural Politics and French Troops in Spain	p. 109
Coriolanus in France from 1933 to 1977: Two Extreme Interpretations	p. 124
Der Merchant von Velence: The Merchant of Venice in London, Berlin, and Budapest during World War II	p. 143
Measuring the "Most Cheerful Barrack": Shakespeare's
Measure for Measure in Hungary under the Kadar Regime (1964-85)	p. 158
Feminist Movement and the Balance of Power in John Cranko's Ballet The Taming of the Shrew (Stuttgart, 1969)	p. 169
Rewriting Shakespeare: Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller, and the Politics of Performance	p. 179
Hybridization: A New Trend in German Shakespeare Productions	p. 196
The Politics of Criticism
Introduction	p. 215
Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers: Shakespeare's Elizabethan Audience and the Political Agendas of Shakespeare Criticism	p. 220
Hamlet and Modernism: T. S. Eliot and G. Wilson Knight	p. 234
"What dost thou think 'tis worth?": Timon of Athens and Politics as a Nonreligious Religion	p. 246
Reeducating Germany: BBC Shakespeare 1945	p. 255
Translating Politics, Politicizing Translation
Introduction	p. 281
Translating Europe into Your England	p. 286
Conservatism and Liberalism in the Four Spanish Renderings of Ducis's Hamlet	p. 304
Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Socialist Realism: A Case Study in Intersemiotic Translation	p. 318
The Smithy of the Soul: Shakespeare, Translation, and Identity	p. 329
Anthologies, Translations, and European Identities	p. 343
Notes on Contributors	p. 369
Index of Names	p. 374
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