Shakespeare and Space
Theatrical Explorations of the Spatial Paradigm
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Living Reference Work Entry At a glance
Sinclair, May
Bürgerliche Kindheit; Beschäftigung mit Literatur, Philosophie und Mystik; Glaubenskrise; 1904 Durchbruch mit dem Roman The Divine Fire; verfasste Romane im Stil des ‚Psychologischen Realismus‘; Einsatz im Ersten...
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Sinclair, May: The Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Der Roman erschien im ‚annus mirabilis‘ der englischsprachigen Moderne 1922, zeitgleich mit zentralen Werken von James Joyce, Virginia Woolf und T. S. Eliot. Wenngleich weniger bekannt als deren Texte, fügt Sincl...
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English Visions: The Work of Jacquetta Hawkes Priestley
Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–1996) was a woman of letters instrumental, with her husband J. B. Priestley, in launching the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 and engaged in elaborating a philosophy of human co...
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Introduction
The introduction outlines the collection’s approach to Shakespeare and the study of space, giving an overview of work previously done in the field and offering a taxonomy of notions of space as a theoretical b...
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Hamlets Misogynie?
»[F]railty, thy name is woman« (I.2.146) ist eines der geflügelten Worte, die die Nachwelt Shakespeares dänischem Prinzen zu verdanken hat, und das ist symptomatisch, denn die Tragödie, die oft als frühe und b...
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Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation
‘If it were simply Old, Deep and Enduring’, says Kevin Davey, ‘Englishness, like an oak table, wouldn’t need much more than an occasional polish.’1 Lacking the solidity of an oak table, however, ‘Englishness has ...
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Memory: Sha** the Present out of the Past
It has been argued that discourses about identity, both individual and collective, are mythopoeic. This process of mythmaking also implies a relation to ‘the past’, and to memory. An exploration of Englishness...
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The Skeleton in the Cupboard
At the beginning of World War Two, Daphne du Maurier was called upon, like many other influential authors, to ‘do her bit’ for propaganda, and she responded by writing some edifying stories for various newspap...
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Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne
J. B. Priestley was a highly influential middlebrow writer who captured, expressed and shaped the mood of the interwar period. Highbrow writers and critics such as Harold Nicolson, Virginia Woolf and the Leavi...
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Addressing the People
Priestley was a prominent author in the 1930s, but he reached the height of his fame and popularity in wartime with a great number of domestic and overseas broadcasts. In particular, his series of ‘Postscripts...
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From Gothic to Memodrama
Jamaica Inn is a shipwreck narrative, set at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The shipwreck narrative is a popular and culturally significant genre which addresses moments of crisis when social rules and...
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Myth: Ideologies, Symbolic Forms and the ‘Mythical Present’
Cultural stereotypes are often explained with recourse to Roland Barthes’ structuralist concept of myth as expounded in his Mythologies (1958). For Barthes, myth is a sign system that repeats the structure of lan...
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Media: Challenging Modernism — the ‘Middlebrow’ and Memodrama
Modernists, such as Wyndham Lewis or Ezra Pound, announced with iconoclast pathos that the past would disappear in a vortex and give way to the new, as expressed in such experimental movements as vorticism, futur...
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English Journeys
After looking at Priestley’s fiction, I will analyse how the symbolic form of Englishness was expressed in non-fictional work. The interwar period saw an expanding market for travel literature. As Paul Fussell...
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Dreamtime in Cornwall
Unlike J. B. Priestley, Daphne du Maurier was a ‘born novelist’. She came from a famous and well-connected family of artists, actors and writers, but finding London society uncongenial, fled to Cornwall in her...
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‘She has that in her belly will dry up your ink’: Femininity as Challenge in the ‘Equitable Drama’ of John Webster
Theatre in early modern England has for some time been recognized as a crucial form of cultural exchange. It not only expresses but also inquires into and mediates between different types of social performativ...
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Autorinnen und Autoren A–Z
