Shakespeare and the Second World War: Memory, Culture, Identity

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theatre, War, Memory, and Culture
1 German Shakespeare, the Third Reich, and the War
2 Shakespearean Negotiations in the Perpetrator Society: German Productions of The Merchant of Venice during the Second World War
3 Shylock, Palestine, and the Second World War
4 ‘Caesar’s word against the world’: Caesarism and the Discourses of Empire
5 Shakespeare and Censorship during the Second World War: Othello in Occupied Greece
6 ‘In This Hour of History: Amidst These Tragic Events’ – Polish Shakespeare during the Second World War
7 Pasternak’s Shakespeare in Wartime Russia
8 Shakespeare as an Icon of the Enemy Culture in Wartime Japan, 1937–1945
9 ‘Warlike Noises’: Jingoistic Hamlet during the Sino-Japanese Wars
10 Shakespeare, Stratford, and the Second World War
11 Rosalinds, Violas, and Other Sentimental Friendships: The Osiris Players and Shakespeare, 1939–1945
12 Maurice Evans’s G.I. Hamlet: Analogy, Authority, and Adaptation
13 The War at ‘Home’: Representations of Canada and of the Second World War in Star Crossed
14 Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz
15 Appropriating Shakespeare in Defeat: Hamlet and the Contemporary Polish Vision of War
Appendix: List of Productions
Contributors
Index