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Title:: "Divergence and Convergence: The 'Universal' versus the National Bard"
Author:: Makaryk, Irena R..
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2022

Publication Information:: King, Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016, 117–47. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_5)
DOI:: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_5
Annotation:: Analyzes "complex and sometimes intersecting Soviet strategies of rituals of commemoration, containment, and celebration." Considers Soviet strategies of celebration during 1964, which marked 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and 100th anniversary of death of Ukrainian writer and artist Taras Shevchenko. English summary, online.

Title:: "Culture and Colonialism: The 1916 Shakespeare Tercentenary in Egypt"
Author:: Karma Sami; Smialkowska, Monika.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2022

Publication Information:: King, Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016, 89–115. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_13)
DOI:: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_4
Annotation:: Considers how "celebrating a cultural anniversary at a historical moment fraught with acute colonial tensions" can produce ambiguous and conflicting feelings. Examines manifestations of such conflicting feelings produced from Egypt's celebration of Shakespearean Tercentary in 1916. English summary, online.

Title:: "A Greenwich Night's Dream: Shakespeare, Empire, and the Royal Navy in Post-Armistice Britain"
Author:: Schreyer, Kurt A..
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2022

Publication Information:: King, Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016, 65–85. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_3)
DOI:: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_3
Annotation:: Discusses Greenwich Night Pageant, produced by historian and journalist Arthur Bryant in post-Armistice Britain from June 16-24, 1933. Investigates how Bryant relied heavily on Shakespeare's words in scripting pageant for celebration of British navy. English summary, online.

Title:: "From Common Reader to Canon: Memorialising the Shakespeare-Reading British Soldier During the First World War"
Author:: King, Edmund G. C..
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2022

Publication Information:: King, Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016, 35–64. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_2)
DOI:: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_2
Annotation:: Investigates how figure and image of "the Shakespeare-reading soldier" was utilized in book-trade and charity publicity in Britain during First World War. Considers how image of soldiers reading classics "contributed to larger discourses of national identty and cultural and aesthetic mobilisation." English summary, online.

Publication Information:: Clingham, The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, 150–63.
Annotation:: Examines labor and processes involved in creating Samuel Johnson's editions of Shakespeare's plays, printed in 1765. Considers influence of previous editions on Johnson's editions as well as Johnson's editorial process.

Publication Information:: Clingham, The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, 55–68.
Annotation:: Explores Samuel Johnson's language and lexicography. Considers Johnson's assessments of Shakespeare's language, including Shakespearean diction.

Publication Information:: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiv + 267 pp.
Annotation:: Includes two essays on Shakespeare.

Publication Information:: London: Reaktion Books, 2022. 351 pp.
Annotation:: Challenges idea that Shakespeare hated working-class people through exploration of working people and their professions. Argues that "robust realism of these characters, their independence of mind, and their engagement in the great issues of the day, make them much more than mere comic relief."

Additional:: Oliver Brunner, dramaturg. Sets and costumes by Jennifer Hörr; music by David Rimsky-Korsakow and Anders Ehlin.
Venue:: Produced by Staatstheater Darmstadt (https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de) at the Großes Haus, Darmstadt, beginning 28 March 2022.
Annotation:: With Edda Wiersch (Juliet), Ali Berber (Romeo), Karin Klein (Capulet), Gabriele Derchsel (Nurse), Daniel Scholz (Tybalt), Hubert Schlemmer (Montague), Thorsten Loeb (Mercutio), Stefan Schuster (Benvolio), Béla Milan Uhrlau (Paris), and Jörg Zirnstein (Friar Laurence).

Additional:: Translated into German by Elisabeth Plessen. Gabriele Rebholz, dramaturg. Sets by Matthias Engelmann; costumes by Corinna Theuring.
Venue:: Produced by Stadttheater Ingolstadt (https://theater.ingolstadt.de) at the Stadttheater, Ingolstadt, beginning 26 March 2022.
Annotation:: With Sarah Horak (Feste), Luiza Monteiro (Viola/Sebastian), Fabio Savoldelli (Olivia), Renate Knollmann (Maria), Karolina Nägele (Orsino), Ralf Lichtenberg (Sir Toby), Marc Simon Delfs (Sir Andrew), and Philipp Moschitz (Malvolio).

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