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THEATRE AND MUSIC<br />
NEW<br />
EDITED BY IRENA R. MAKARYK<br />
AND MARISSA McHUGH<br />
Shakespeare and the Second World War<br />
Theatre, Culture, Identity<br />
SHAKESPEARE AND THE<br />
SECOND WORLD WAR<br />
THEATRE CULTURE IDENTITY<br />
Edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Marissa McHugh<br />
Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and<br />
complex position in world culture: they straddle<br />
both the high and the low, the national and the<br />
foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World<br />
War presents a fascinating case study <strong>of</strong> this<br />
phenomenon: most, if not all, <strong>of</strong> its combatants<br />
have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon<br />
his work to convey their society’s self-image.<br />
In wartime, such claims frequently brought to<br />
the fore a crisis <strong>of</strong> cultural identity and <strong>of</strong> competing<br />
ownership <strong>of</strong> this ‘universal’ author. Despite this,<br />
the role <strong>of</strong> Shakespeare during the Second World<br />
War has not yet been examined or documented in<br />
any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War<br />
provides the first sustained international, collaborative<br />
incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate<br />
how the wide variety <strong>of</strong> ways in which Shakespeare<br />
has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted<br />
from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and<br />
continue to illuminate the war today.<br />
Irena R. Makaryk is a pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> English at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Ottawa. Marissa<br />
McHugh is an doctoral candidate in the Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> English at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Ottawa.<br />
Approx. 296 pp / 34 illustrations / 6 x 9 / September <strong>2012</strong><br />
Cloth 978-1-4426-4402-1 $65.00 (£45.99)<br />
NEW<br />
NEW<br />
SHakESpEarE<br />
adaptation<br />
ModErn draMa<br />
Essays in Honour <strong>of</strong> Jill L. Levenson<br />
Edited by Randall MaRtin and KathERinE SchEil<br />
Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama<br />
Essays in Honour <strong>of</strong> Jill L. Levenson<br />
Edited by Randall Martin and Katherine Scheil<br />
Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama is the first<br />
book-length international study to examine the<br />
critical and theatrical connections among these<br />
fields, including the motivations, methods, and limits<br />
<strong>of</strong> adaptation in modern performance media.<br />
Top scholars including Peter Holland, Alexander<br />
Leggatt, Brian Parker, and Stanley Wells examine<br />
such topics as the relationship between Shakespeare<br />
and modern drama in the context <strong>of</strong> current literary<br />
theories, and historical accounts <strong>of</strong> adaptive and<br />
appropriative practices. Among the diverse and<br />
intriguing examples studied are the authorial selfadaptations<br />
<strong>of</strong> Tom Stoppard and Tennessee<br />
Williams, and the generic and political appropriations<br />
<strong>of</strong> Shakespeare’s texts in television, musical theatre,<br />
and memoir.<br />
Seeing Things<br />
From Shakespeare to Pixar<br />
Randall Martin is a pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the Department <strong>of</strong><br />
English at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New Brunswick.<br />
Katherine Scheil is an associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> English at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Minnesota, Twin Cities.<br />
‘Reading these theoretically astute essays, I found<br />
myself constantly intrigued, informed, challenged,<br />
entertained, and stretched – and imagining my<br />
students devouring this book and gaining<br />
enormously from it.’<br />
Carol Chillington Rutter, Warwick <strong>University</strong><br />
288 pp / 4 illustrations / 6 x 9 / 2011<br />
Cloth 978-1-4426-4174-7 $65.00 (£45.99)<br />
Alan Ackerman<br />
How do the acts <strong>of</strong> seeing and believing remain<br />
linked Alan Ackerman charts the dynamic history<br />
<strong>of</strong> interactions between showing and knowing in<br />
Seeing Things, a richly interdisciplinary study which<br />
illuminates changing modes <strong>of</strong> perception and<br />
modern representational media.<br />
Seeing Things demonstrates that the airy<br />
nothings <strong>of</strong> A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Ghost<br />
in Hamlet, and soulless bodies in Beckett’s media<br />
experiments, alongside Toy Story’s digitally<br />
animated toys, all serve to illustrate the modern<br />
problem <strong>of</strong> visualizing, as Hamlet put it, ‘that within<br />
which passes show.’<br />
Alan Ackerman is an associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> English at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Toronto</strong>.<br />
‘In these elegant essays, at once theatrical and<br />
philosophical, Alan Ackerman <strong>of</strong>fers a probing<br />
meditation on sight and on the lingering mysteries<br />
<strong>of</strong> the invisible.’<br />
Martin Puchner, Harvard <strong>University</strong><br />
160 pp / 6 x 9 / 2011<br />
Cloth 978-1-4426-4364-2 $50.00 (£34.99)<br />
Paper 978-1-4426-1210-5 $21.95 (£15.99)<br />
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