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Shakespeare in Cold War Europe

Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration

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Editors:
  1. Erica Sheen

    1. Department of English and Related Litera, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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  2. Isabel Karremann

    1. University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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Part of the book series: Global Shakespeares (GSH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration

    • Erica Sheen
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Mystery in the Soul of State: Shakespeare in Airlift Berlin

    • Erica Sheen
    Pages 9-22

  4. Celebrating Shakespeare under the Communist Regime in Poland

    • Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney
    Pages 23-35

  5. The Cultural Politics of the Quatercentenary in Germany

    • Isabel Karremann
    Pages 37-50

  6. ‘Here is my Space’: The 1964 Shakespeare Celebrations in the USSR

    • Irena R. Makaryk
    Pages 51-62

  7. Shakespeare’s Theatre of War in 1960s France

    • Nicole Fayard
    Pages 63-74

  8. In from the Cold: Celebrating Shakespeare in Francoist Spain

    • Keith Gregor
    Pages 75-84

  9. Doublespeak and Realism: Shakespeare Productions in Hungary in 1976

    • Veronika Schandl
    Pages 85-98

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 99-122
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About this book

This essay collection examines the Shakespearian culture of Cold War Europe - Germany, France, UK, USSR, Poland, Spain and Hungary - from 1947/8 to the end of the 1970s. Written by international Shakespearians who are also scholars of the Cold War, the essays assembled here consider representative events, productions and performances as cultural politics, international diplomacy and sites of memory, and show how they inform our understanding of the political, economic, even military, dynamics of the post-war global order. The volume explores the political and cultural function of Shakespearian celebration and commemoration, but it also acknowledges the conflicts they generated across the European Cold War ‘theatre’, examining the impact of Cold War politics on Shakespearian performance, criticism and scholarship. Drawing on archival material, and presenting its sources both in their original language and in translation, it offers historically and theoretically nuanced accounts of Shakespeare’s international significance in the divided world of Cold War Europe, and its legacy today.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Related Litera, University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Erica Sheen

  • University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Isabel Karremann

About the editors

Erica Sheen is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Film at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre: The Best in this Kind (Palgrave 2009).  Other publications include co-edited volumes on Renaissance law and literature (2004) and David Lynch (2004). She is currently finishing a monograph on Cold War Shakespeare.  


Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at Würzburg University, Germany. She is the author of The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare’s History Plays (2015) and co-editor of two essay collections on the negotiation of confessional conflict in literature, drama and cultural practice across early modern Europe (2011) and England (2016).

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