Shakespeare and Modernism

by Cary DiPietro

• ISBN13: 9780521845397
• ISBN10: 0521845394
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Artists and writers in early twentieth-century England engaged in a variety of ways with the cultural traditions of Shakespeare as a means of defining and relating what they understood to be their own unique historical experience. In Shakespeare and Modernism, Cary DiPietro expands upon the established studies of this field by uncovering the connections and contexts which unite a broad range of cultural practices, from theatrical and book production, including that of Edward Gordon Craig and Harley Granville-Barker, to literary constructions of Shakespeare by high modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Important contexts for the discussion include Marxist aesthetic theory contemporary with the period, the Nietzschean and Freudian contexts of English modernism and early twentieth-century feminism. An original and accessible study, this book will appeal to students and scholars of both Shakespeare and modernism alike.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vi
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(14)
The Shakespeare revolution	15	(28)
Sex, lies and historical fictions	43	(40)
The theatre and a changing civilization	83	(54)
Shakespeare's text in performance, circa 1923	137	(31)
How many children had Virginia Woolf?	168	(32)
Notes	200	(31)
Index	231