Shakespeare and German Reunification: The Interface of Politics and Performance

by Emily Oliver

Overview

This book explores the relationship between politics and Shakespeare performance in East Germany before, during and after reunification in 1990. The book examines political and aesthetic censorship before reunification, and financial difficulties in its aftermath, asking what role Shakespeare played for Germans both within and beyond the theatre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787070707
Publisher:	Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	09/27/2017
Series:	Studies in Modern German and Austrian Literature , #4
Edition description:	New
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Emily Oliver is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on Anglo–German cultural relations in the twentieth century. She is currently heading the research project «Broadcasting Nations: A History of the BBC German Service (1938–1999)».

Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Introduction: Shakespeare and the Wende – East German Shakespeare in the 1980s – Shakespeare and the Politics of the Wende – Post-Reunification Shakespeare – «Must I Remember? »: Memorializing GDR Theatre.

Editorial Reviews

«"Deutschland ist Hamlet”, declared the revolutionary poet Ferdinand von Freiligrath in 1844. [...] Emily Oliver, in Shakespeare and German Reunification, introduces the subject via the shadowy machinations of cultural politics.»
(The Times Literary Supplement TLS, June 2018)

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