Shakespeare and Conflict: A European Perspective

By Carla Dente

Book Overview

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.Sch?lting 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-P?rez Shakespeare And The Continental Avant-Garde Through Garc?a Lorca's El P?blico (1930); J.F.Cerd? 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 M?ller 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134934463X
• ISBN13: 9781349344635
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"