Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War
Author: Alfred Thomas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137438959

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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale.


Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Alfred Thomas
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-22 - Publisher: Springer

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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience
Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Alfred Thomas
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-18 - Publisher: Springer

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Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism,
Shakespeare in Cold War Europe
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: Erica Sheen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-09 - Publisher: Springer

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This essay collection examines the Shakespearian culture of Cold War Europe - Germany, France, UK, USSR, Poland, Spain and Hungary - from 1947/8 to the end of t
Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Victoria Bladen
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.
Shakespeare’s Extremes
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-18 - Publisher: Springer

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Shakespeare's Extremes is a controversial intervention in current critical debates on the status of the human in Shakespeare's work. By focusing on three flagra