South African Shakespeare in the twentieth century

Title: South African Shakespeare in the twentieth century
Creator: Wright, Laurence
Date Issued: 2009
Date: 2009
Type: Book chapter
Identifier: vital:7061
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007425
Description: This special section of the Shakespearean International Yearbook asks a series of questions about South African Shakespeare, chapter by chapter, focusing on the twentieth century. The temporal emphasis is deliberate, because it was particularly in the last century that Shakespeare became an issue, albeit a minor one, in relation to the titanic political and ideological struggles that convulsed the country throughout the period. The articles set out to examine and re-assess, in historical sequence, some of the acknowledged highlights of Shakespeare in South Africa in the last century. These are the moments when, for a range of different reasons, Shakespeare troubles the public sphere to claim attention in excess of that normally accorded ‘routine Shakespeare,’ that haphazard succession of productions, tours, educational debates, academic publications, reviews and commentary that comprises the internal history of the subject.
Format: 21 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Ashgate
Language: English
Relation: Wright, L.S. (2009) South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century. In: The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington VT, USA, pp. 3-28.

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