Shakespeare and National Culture

by John J. Joughin (Editor)

Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. There is, and was, a German Shakespeare (East and West); there is the contested legacy of a colonial Shakespeare in former British possessions; there is the post-national Shakespeare who has become the focus of debates concerning multiculturalism. Shakespeare has often been co-opted to serve nationalism yet it has also served to contest and transform it in complex and contradictory ways. The examples are legion.
In situating the question of Shakespeare and national culture in its global perspective this volume draws together original essays by the leading scholars in the field.

351 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1997

Reviews

[Florence Ridley · Rating 4 out of 5]

These essays were absolutely excellent and really captured a sense of the late '90s in Britain. It was fascinating to go back to what was the cutting edge with the knowledge of which issues and methodologies are still relevant and which resolved or faded into obscurity. However, they were also written in a language I can only describe as the product of feeding Derrida and Marx into ChatGPT - perhaps another symptom of the '90s but wow was it hard to parse.