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Author:   Ailsa Grant Ferguson (Brighton University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781474295840

ISBN 10:   1474295843
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   27 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword by Gordon McMullan and Philip Mead Introduction Chapter one Prologue: The Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre events, 1910-12: Festivity, bardolatry, (re)constructing 'memory' Chapter two What Ho! For Shakespeare, when we get back to Blighty! : Commemorating Shakespeare in wartime Chapter three Performing Englishness: The Shakespeare Hut for Anzacs Chapter four Performing femininity: Women at the Shakespeare Hut Chapter five After the War, 1919-23 Chapter six Epilogue: Forgetting and 'Remembering' the Shakespeare Hut, 1924-2016: Festivity, bardolatry and (re)constructing 'memory' Notes Bibliography Index

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A fascinating, multi-faceted narrative of cultural changes negotiated in a unique cultural space, including new national identities arising from the old British Empire, feminism, modernism and the afterlives of Shakespeare. * Coppélia Kahn, Professor of English, Emerita, Brown University, USA *

A fascinating, multi-faceted narrative of cultural changes negotiated in a unique cultural space, including new national identities arising from the old British Empire, feminism, modernism and the afterlives of Shakespeare. -- Coppelia Kahn, Professor of English, Emerita, Brown University, USA

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Ailsa Grant Ferguson is Principal Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.

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