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On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events - such as the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Second Vatican Council of 1964 and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to express political agendas. In the USA, commemoration in 1864 counted on him to symbolise unity transcending the Civil War, while the First World War pulled the 1916 anniversary celebration into the war effort, enlisting Shakespeare as patriotic poet. The essays also consider how the dream of Shakespeare as a rural poet took shape in gardens, how cartoons challenged the poet's élite status and how statues of him mutated into advertisements for gin and Disney cartoons. Richly varied illustrations supplement these case studies of the diverse, complex and contradictory aims of memorialising Shakespeare 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 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: 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
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