Celebrating Shakespeare

Clara Calvo is Professor of English Studies at Universidad de Murcia, Spain. She is the author of Power Relations and Fool-Master Discourse in Shakespeare (1991) and co-authored The Literature Workbook (with Jean-Jacques Weber, 1998). She has edited, with Ton Hoenselaars, European Shakespeares (The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 8, 2008), a special issue of Critical Survey on Shakespeare and the Cultures of Commemoration (2010), and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy for Arden Early Modern Drama (with Jesús Tronch, 2013). Her articles have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, The Year's Work in English Studies, and several other journals and collections of essays. Coppélia Kahn is Professor of English, Emerita, at Brown University, Rhode Island. She has published widely on feminist theory, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and Shakespeare's place in American culture. She is author of Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (1981) and Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women (1997). She also co-edited Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism (with Gayle Green, 1985).

'Wide-ranging in both space and time, this richly illustrated volume offers a fascinating, and often entertaining, series of studies of the numerous different ways in which Shakespeare has been celebrated and commemorated over the centuries.' Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

• Introduction: Shakespeare and commemoration Coppélia Kahn and Clara Calvo; 1. David Garrick: saints, temples and jubilees Peter Holland; 2. Commemorating Shakespeare in performance: Betterton and Irving Richard Schoch; 3. Relic, pageant, sunken wrack: Shakespeare in 1816 Adrian Poole; 4. Remembrance of things past: Shakespeare 1851, 1951, 2012 Graham Holderness; 5. Remembering Shakespeare in India: colonial and postcolonial memory Supriya Chaudhuri; 6. Shakespeare at the Vatican, 1964 Marta Cerezo; 7. Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864 Douglas M. Lanier; 8. Shakespeare's rising: Ireland and the 1916 Tercentenary Andrew Murphy; 9. Goblin's market: commemoration, anti-semitism and the invention of 'global Shakespeare' in 1916 Gordon McMullan; 10. Performing commemoration in wartime: Shakespeare galas in London, 1916–19 Ailsa Grant Ferguson; 11. Lest we forget: Shakespeare tercentenary commemoration in Sydney and London, 1916 Philip Mead; 12. Brought up to date: Shakespeare in cartoons Clara Calvo; 13. Sculpted Shakespeare Ton Hoenselaars; 14. Gardening with Shakespeare Nicola J. Watson; 15. Anne Hathaway's Cottage: myth, tourism, diplomacy Katherine West Scheil; Bibliography; Index.