"Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war depicted as a source of great excitement and as a theater of honor; war depicted from realistic or skeptical perspectives that expose the butchery, suffering, illness, famine, degradation, and havoc it causes. The essays in this volume examine the representations and rhetoric of war throughout Shakespeare's plays, as well as the modern history of the war plays on stage, in film, and in propaganda. This book offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's multifaceted representations of the complexities of early modern warfare, while at the same time illuminating why his perspectives on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the future"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Coriolanus and the use of power / Catherine M.S. Alexander. Just war theory and Shakespeare / Franziska Quabeck -- Shakespeare on civil and dynastics wars / Davis Bevington -- Foreign war / Claire McEachern -- War and the classical world / Maggie Kilgour -- "The question of these wars": Shakespeare, warfare and the chronicles / Davis Scott Kastan -- Instrumentalizing anger: warfare and disposition in the Henriad / Gail Kern Paster -- War and eros / Davis Schalkwyk -- Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of war / Lynn Magmusson -- Staging Shakespeare's wars in the twnetieth and twenty-first centuries / Michael Hattaway -- Reading Shakespeare's wars on film: ideology and montage / Greg Semenza -- Shakespeare and World War II / Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. -- Henry V and the pleasure of war / Paul Stevens -- Macbeth and trauma / Willy Maley -- Coriolanus and the use of power / Catherine M.S. Alexander.
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