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Original article can be found at: http://www.shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/en.html Copyright Deutsc... more Original article can be found at: http://www.shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/en.html Copyright Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]

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Full text of this book is not available in the UHRA.An introduction to Anglo-Saxon poetry which c... more Full text of this book is not available in the UHRA.An introduction to Anglo-Saxon poetry which combines powerful new translations with lucid commentary, bringing these Old English texts within the compass of the modern reader

Notes and Queries, 2002

The two terms of this book's title-'culture' and 'myth'-map the territory of its contents, which ... more The two terms of this book's title-'culture' and 'myth'-map the territory of its contents, which span more or less a decade of work (1984-94) in a particular area of Shakespeare studies. The subtitle derives from a collection of essays by various hands, published in 1988 as The Shakespeare Myth. The term 'myth' was derived from Roland Barthes' Mythologies i was an attempt to identify a powerful cultural institution, constructed around the figure of Shakespeare, that could be analysed to some degree separately from the person of the Elizabethan dramatist, and the texts of his works. Traditional Shakespeare criticism, as it is still very widely practised, consists of reading and interpreting the plays and poems; seeking to unlock their intrinsic meanings by reference to the author's assumed 'intentions' or to the historical context in which he wrote; analysing the plays in relation to their origins in the Elizabethan theatre and so on. The Shakespeare Myth sought a different approach:

Full text of this book is not available in the UHRAThe room is set up like a conference hall some... more Full text of this book is not available in the UHRAThe room is set up like a conference hall somewhere in the Arab world, or perhaps like the legislative assembly of a small modern state. There are desks with push-button microphones and headsets. Behind, there is a screen, as if someone planned to give a Powerpoint presentation. But the names on the desks are the familiar characters from "Hamlet". The setting of Sulayman Al Bassam's powerful, disturbing version of the "Hamlet" story is a modern Middle-Eastern state whose old king has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, westernised dictator who has married the old king's wife to legitimise his rule, and calls his regime a "new democracy"

Theatre Research International, 1991

The Modern Language Review, 1990

‘Shakespeare and Englishness’ uses Andy Cadiff’s 2008 film A Bunch of Amateurs to extrapolate and... more ‘Shakespeare and Englishness’ uses Andy Cadiff’s 2008 film A Bunch of Amateurs to extrapolate and assess contemporary meanings of ‘Stratford-upon-Avon’, from prestigious national arts centre to inaccessible rural backwater. Within the horizons of these different paradigms, Holderness returns to the culture wars of the 1980s to analyse Stratford’s constitutive position inside the ‘Shakespeare industry’ targeted at that time for hostile critique by cultural materialism. Adopting a more contemporary perspective, this paper argues that this critical dislike of Stratford was to a large extent misplaced, and that with its rural location, picturesque ambience, ‘village’ culture and Shakespearean saturation, the town of Stratford is capable of offering a powerful image of imagined national community.

Copyright © 2010 Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and the contributors. First published 20... more Copyright © 2010 Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and the contributors. First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.The title Shakespeare-land derives from a pictorial guide-book to Stratford-upon Avon, published around 1912, in a series called Beautiful England. The familiar iconic images of Stratford- ‘the Birthplace’, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Holy Trinity Church- are presented here not as photographic illustrations, but in the form of pictorial watercolours by E.W. Haslehurst. Bright colours and lush textures invoke traditions of English landscape painting, Constable and Turner, while the figures in the plates wear the rustic costumes of an earlier age. A view of Stratford High Street shows a motor-car and a rural wagon, both stationary, the street’s only traffic being a flock of sheep, driven by a be-smocked Shepard. Photographs of the same period show people in contemporary urban dress, cars, horse-drawn carriages; but shepherd and sheep are noticeably absent.Non peer rev...

Copyright Cambridge University Press [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]Peer... more Copyright Cambridge University Press [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]Peer reviewe

Graham Holderness, ‘Hamnet Shakespeare’, in Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells, eds., The Shakespeare ... more Graham Holderness, ‘Hamnet Shakespeare’, in Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells, eds., The Shakespeare Circle: an Alternative Biography, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), ISBN 978-1-107-05432-5, eISBN 978-1-316-40531-4.Peer reviewe

An analytic account of the impact of Al-Bassam's work on theatre in the Arab world and around... more An analytic account of the impact of Al-Bassam's work on theatre in the Arab world and around the globe.Peer reviewe