Shakespeare and Commemoration

Clara Calvo is Professor of English at the University of Murcia (Spain). Her books include Power Relations and Fool-Master Discourse in Shakespeare (OPSL, 1991) and, with Jean Jacques Weber, The Literature Workbook (Routledge, 1998). With Jesús Tronch, she has edited The Spanish Tragedy for the Arden Early Modern Series (2013), and with Coppélia Kahn, Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Between 2011 and 2018, she was the President of the Spanish and Portuguese English Renaissance Studies Association (SEDERI).

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• Introduction: Shakespeare and the Cultures of CommemorationTon Hoenselaars and Clara CalvoChapter 1. Acting as an Epitaph: Performing Commemoration in the Shakespearean History PlayEmily ShortslefChapter 2. From Jubilee to Gala: Remembrance and Ritual CommemorationRobert SawyerChapter 3. Shakespeare RememberedGraham HoldernessChapter 4. American Shakespeare Clubs and CommemorationKatherine ScheilChapter 5. Shakespeare and ‘Native Americans’: Forging Identities through the 1916 Shakespeare TercentenaryMonika SmialkowskaChapter 6. The Disciplines of War, Memory, and Writing: Shakespeare’s Henry V and David Jones’s In ParenthesisAdrian PooleChapter 7. Monumental Play: Commemoration, Post-war Britain, and History CyclesAnita M. HagermanAfterword: The Seeds of TimeGraham Holderness