New PDF release: Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory

By Clara Calvo,Coppélia Kahn

ISBN-10: 1107042771

ISBN-13: 9781107042773

ISBN-10: 1107643139

ISBN-13: 9781107643130

at the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's loss of life, this assortment opens up the social practices of commemoration to new examine and research. a global crew of top students explores a huge spectrum of celebrations, displaying how key occasions - akin to the Easter emerging in eire, the second one Vatican Council of 1964 and the nice Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to precise political agendas. within the united states, commemoration in 1864 counted on him to symbolise solidarity transcending the Civil battle, whereas the 1st international conflict pulled the 1916 anniversary party into the battle attempt, enlisting Shakespeare as patriotic poet. The essays additionally contemplate how the dream of Shakespeare as a rural poet took form in gardens, how cartoons challenged the poet's élite prestige and the way statues of him mutated into ads for gin and Disney cartoons. Richly different illustrations complement those case stories of the various, advanced and contradictory goals of memorialising Shakespeare.

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