Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theatre, War, Memory, and Culture

IRENA R. MAKARYK

1 German Shakespeare, the Third Reich, and the War

WERNER HABICHT

2 Shakespearean Negotiations in the Perpetrator Society: German Productions of The Merchant of Venice during the Second World War

ZENO ACKERMANN

3 Shylock, Palestine, and the Second World War

MARK BAYER

4 ‘Caesar’s word against the world’: Caesarism and the Discourses of Empire

NANCY ISENBERG

5 Shakespeare and Censorship during the Second World War: Othello in Occupied Greece

TINA KRONTIRIS

6 ‘In This Hour of History: Amidst These Tragic Events’ – Polish Shakespeare during the Second World War

KRYSTYNA KUJAWIŃBSKA COURTNEY

7 Pasternak’s Shakespeare in Wartime Russia

ALEKSEI SEMENENKO

8 Shakespeare as an Icon of the Enemy Culture in Wartime Japan, 1937–1945

RYUTA MINAMI

9 ‘Warlike Noises’: Jingoistic Hamlet during the Sino-Japanese Wars

ALEXANDER C.Y. HUANG

10 Shakespeare, Stratford, and the Second World War

SIMON BARKER

11 Rosalinds, Violas, and Other Sentimental Friendships: The Osiris Players and Shakespeare, 1939–1945

PETER BILLINGHAM

12 Maurice Evans’s G.I. Hamlet: Analogy, Authority, and Adaptation

ANNE RUSSELL

13 The War at ‘Home’: Representations of Canada and of the Second World War in Star Crossed

MARISSA MCHUGH

14 Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz

TIBOR EGERVARI

15 Appropriating Shakespeare in Defeat: Hamlet and the Contemporary Polish Vision of War

KATARZYNA KWAPISZ WILLIAMS

Appendix: List of Productions

Contributors

Index