Shakespeare in Cold War Europe

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).

List of figures.- Personal Acknowledgements.- Formal Acknowledgements.- List of Contributors.- 1. Introduction: Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration…; Erica Sheen.- 2. The Mystery in the Soul of State: Shakespeare in Airlift Berlin; Erica Sheen.- 3. Celebrating Shakespeare under the Communist Regime in Poland; Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney.- 4. The Cultural Politics of the Quatercentenary in Germany; Isabel Karremann.- 5. ‘Here is my space’: The 1964 Shakespeare Celebrations in the USSR; Irena R. Makaryk.- 6. Shakespeare’s Theatre of War in 1960s France; Nicole Fayard.- 7. In from the Cold: Celebrating Shakespeare in Francoist Spain; Keith Gregor.- 8. Doublespeak and Realism: Shakespeare Productions in Hungary in 1976; Veronika Schandl.- 9. Anatomy of Commemoration: Anniversaries, Community, Temporality; Geoffrey Cubitt.-Bibliography.- Index.-