The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.390  Wednesday, 2 September 2015

 

From:        Christa Jansohn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

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

 

 

 

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