The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.390 Wednesday, 2 September 2015
From: Christa Jansohn <
Date: September 1, 2015 at 8:41:47 AM EDT
Subject: Christa Jansohn, Dieter Mehl (Eds.): Shakespeare Jubilees: 1769-2014
I am delighted to announce the publication of a collection of essays on Shakespeare Jubilees around the world from 1764 to 2014:
Christa Jansohn, Dieter Mehl (Eds.): Shakespeare Jubilees: 1769-2014 (Studien zur englischen Literatur, 27). Paperback 29.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978-3-643-90590-1. Münster: LIT, 2015.
The essay collection ranges from the elaborate celebrations in Shakespeare’s hometown to more modest festivities elsewhere; from ambitious, theatrical, and politically loaded demonstrations to nationally coloured, culturally distinct and idiosyncratic commemorations. The variety of ways in which geographically distant countries have remembered Shakespeare has never before been the object of a comparative study. We hope that the essays in this collection will throw new light on Shakespeare as a shared international heritage.
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Table of Contents:
Andrew Dickson
‘The wrong thing in the right place’:
Britain’s Tercentenary of 1864................................................................... 13
Susan Brock and Sylvia Morris
‘Enchanted ground’: Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday
in Stratford-upon-Avon............................................................................ 31
John Cunningham
‘Solemn and appropriate Shakespearean music’:
The Stratford Tercentenary of 1864........................................................... 57
Alan Young
Art and English Commemorations of Shakespeare 1769‒1964.................. 79
Marie-Clémence Régnier
Shakespeare’s 1864 Jubilee in France: a Crown for
Two Great Writers, William Shakespeare and Victor Hugo...................... 111
Tom Nolan
A German and a French Commemoration of
Shakespeare’s 300th Birthday.................................................................. 129
Christa Jansohn
Celebrating and Commemorating Shakespeare in Germany
1864, 1904, 1964 and 2014....................................................................... 147
Frank Günther
Appendix: Commemorative Speech 2014................................................ 206
Dieter Mehl
German National and International Shakespeare Jubilees
1964 to 1993: From Weimar and Bochum to Vancouver
and the ISA............................................................................................. 213
Júlia Paraizs
Shakespearean Rhapsody: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
at the National Theatre in Budapest (1864)............................................... 231
Alexander Shurbanov
Shakespeare Jubilees and Bulgarian Politics............................................ 257
Katherine Scheil
Between the Jubilees (1916): Shakespeare Clubs in America................... 275
Ann Jennalie Cook
Commemorations Behind the Scenes....................................................... 291
Paul Edmondson and Paul Prescott
Shakespeare on the Road: Celebrating North American
Shakespeare Festivals in 2014.................................................................. 301
Alfredo Michel Modenessi
Latin America 1964: Art and Politics
[or The Year Shakespeare Became a Local]............................................. 317
Mark Houlahan
Shakespeare and the Kiwi, 1916.............................................................. 333
Mami Adachi
Commemorating Shakespeare in Japan:
1964, Before, and Beyond........................................................................ 349
Cong Cong
The 1964 Shakespeare Jubilee in China,
Its Aftermath and Its Echoes.................................................................... 371