Shakespeare and the Second World War – Memory, Culture, Identity Makaryk Mchugh

Shakespeare and the Second World WarMemory, Culture, Identity\nAuthor(s): Irena Makaryk, Marissa McHugh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442644021, 978-1442644021\nSynopsis\nShakespeares works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their societys self-image.\n\n In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this universal author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative i.