A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North Americaand Australia. The book ranges from Shakespeareb s use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public by an English mercenary, to reflections on the ways in which Shakespeare has been represented in Nazi Germany, wartime Denmark, or cold war Romania. ÍNDICE: List of Illustrations - Notes on Contributors - War and Shakespearean Dramaturgy; R.King & P.Franssen - PART I: IDEAS OF WAR AND PEACE - The b Disciplines of Warb : Elizabethan War Manuals and Shakespeareb s Tragicomic Vision; R.King - War in Shakespeareb s Edward III; E.Caldwell - Shakespeare and Peace; T.Kullmann - Some Social Costs of War; R.Morse - PART II: RHETORIC OF WAR - Henry V and the Performance of War; S.Fraser - Drums and Roses? The Tragicomedy of War in Allb s Well That Ends Well; H.Wilcox - Political Speech and the Wars in King John; D.Chetrinescu - b Faking Itb : Persuasion and the Renaissance Military Subject; S.Barker - PART III: TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION - Religion and War in Romanian Translations of Henry V; M.Nicolaescu - Shakespeareb sCoriolanus as Staged in Heiner MC s Germania 3; R.Ledebur - b Something is rottenb ; N.Hansen - Never-ending Conflict: Man (and woman) as Death Bearer in Testorib s Macbetto; C.Dente - PART IV WAR TIME INTERPRETATIONS - The Nightmareof Indifference: Shakespeareb s Sonnet 121 and the War in former Yugoslavia; I.Lupic - Whose b Triumphb ?: The Taming of the Shrew in Berlin during World War II; Z.MC!rkus - b So the Falklands. So Agincourt. b Fuck the Frogsb b : Michael Bogdanovb s English Shakespeare Companyb s b Wars of the Rosesb ; D.Carnegie - Meditations in a Time of (Displaced) War: Henry V, Money, and the Ethicsof Performing History; D.Henderson - Select Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20508-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 17/10/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés