Shakespeare and War

by Paul Franssen and Ros King

Book Overview

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors War and Shakespearean Dramaturgy; R.King & P.Franssen PART I: IDEAS OF WAR AND PEACE The 'Disciplines of War': Elizabethan War Manuals and Shakespeare's Tragicomic Vision; R.King War in Shakespeare'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 All's Well That Ends Well; H.Wilcox Political Speech and the Wars in King John; D.Chetrinescu 'Faking It': Persuasion and the Renaissance Military Subject; S.Barker PART III: TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION Religion and War in Romanian Translations of Henry V; M.Nicolaescu Shakespeare's Coriolanus as Staged in Heiner M?ller's Germania 3; R.Ledebur 'Something is rotten...'; N.Hansen Never-ending Conflict: Man (and woman) as Death Bearer in Testori's Macbetto; C.Dente PART IV WAR TIME INTERPRETATIONS The Nightmare of Indifference: Shakespeare's Sonnet 121 and the War in former Yugoslavia; I.Lupi? Whose 'Triumph'?: The Taming of the Shrew in Berlin during World War II; Z.M?rkus 'So the Falklands. So Agincourt. 'Fuck the Frogs'': Michael Bogdanov's English Shakespeare Company's 'Wars of the Roses'; D.Carnegie Meditations in a Time of (Displaced) War: Henry V, Money, and the Ethics of Performing History; D.Henderson Select Bibliography Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349301752
• ISBN13: 9781349301751
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"