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Touring Shakespeare

by Jim Taylor
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781009381314
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 266
  • Original Price: USD 110.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 527 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Touring Shakespeare reveals how English Shakespeare companies were deployed overseas in service to British diplomatic interests at the end of Empire and the start of the Cold War. In exploring the politics behind the global dissemination of Shakespeare performed by prominent English theatre companies like the Old Vic and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Jim Taylor examines whether tours supported, contradicted, or ran adjacent to the broader diplomatic objectives they served. Peeling back layers of production and reception history in such diverse locations as Egypt, India, Nigeria, and Australia, his study discloses how the British state came to regard Shakespeare tours as an effective compensatory device for its loss of economic and political power overseas, and how the global Shakespeare myth was driven by British cultural institutions between 1939 and 1965.

Taylor, Jim: - Dr Jim Taylor is an independent scholar. He has taught at Université Jean Moulin and Université Lumière in Lyon and held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Open University, UK, where he received the Chancellor Lord Asa Briggs Award. His work has been published in Shakespeare and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare.

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