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Shakespeare and Conflict C. Dente

Shakespeare and Conflict By C. Dente

Shakespeare and Conflict by C. Dente


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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.

Shakespeare and Conflict Summary

Shakespeare and Conflict: A European Perspective by C. Dente

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.

About C. Dente

CLARA CALVO Professor of English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain JUAN F. CERDA 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 Universitat 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 SCHUELTING Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany JESUS TRONCH-PEREZ Senior Lecturer at the University of Valencia, Spain

Table of Contents

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.Schulting 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-Perez Shakespeare And The Continental Avant-Garde Through Garcia Lorca's El Publico (1930); J.F.Cerda 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 Muller 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

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NLS9781349344635
9781349344635
134934463X
Shakespeare and Conflict: A European Perspective by C. Dente
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-01-01
275
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