Touring Shakespeare: Theatre and Post-War Cultural Diplomacy
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/aaao851/
Author:
	Taylor, Jim.
Type:
	Book Monograph
Year:
	2024
Publication Information:
	Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xii + 252
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Reviews:
	Barnden, Sally. Times Literary Supplement 8 August 2025.
Persons:
	Leigh, Vivian; Oliver, Laurence
Keywords:
	colonialism; empire
Tags:
	Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Richard II, Richard III, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	aaao851