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TY  - BOOK
PB  - Cambridge University Press
SE  - xii + 252
CY  - Cambridge
ID  - aaao851
T1  - Touring Shakespeare: Theatre and Post-War Cultural Diplomacy
AU  - Taylor, Jim
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2026
KW  - colonialism
KW  - empire
LA  - English
AB  - Details "the deliberate and extraordinary lengths to which Britain went to project its own preferred version of Shakespeare overseas in the mid-twentieth century." Analyzes Hamlet productions in the Mediterranean in the 1930s and 40s; Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier's 1948 Commonwealth Tour of Australia and New Zealand with the Old Vic, focusing on Richard III and Othello; cold war productions in the Soviet Union of Hamlet and Titus Andronicus; a 1963 tour of Macbeth in Nigeria by the Nottingham Playhouse; and 1960s productions of Tempest, Richard II, and Taming of the Shrew in South and Southeast Asia.
ER  -