The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0492  Tuesday, 4 December 2012

From:        Irene Makaryk < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         December 3, 2012 6:17:08 PM EST

Subject:     Book Announcement: Shakespeare and the Second World War

Hello, Fellow Shakespeareans,
 Marissa McHugh and I are delighted to share the good news that our multi-authored book, Shakespeare and the Second World War: Memory, Culture, Identity (University of Toronto Press) has just been published.

Here is the link:

http://www.utppublishing.com/Shakespeare-and-the-Second-World-War-Memory-Culture-Identity.html

and a description from the dust jacket:

Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society’s self-image.

In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this ‘universal’ author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today

Please share this information with interested friends, colleagues, and students, and especially with your university librarian!

With thanks,

Irene (Irena) R. Makaryk

Professor, Department of English

University of Ottawa

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