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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Shakespeare and the Second World War.
IRENA R. MAKARYK (University of Ottawa)
German Shakespeare, the Third Reich, and the War.
WERNER HABICHT (University of Würzburg)
Shakespearean Negotiations in the Perpetrator Society: German Productions of The Merchant of Venice during the Second World War.
ZENO ACKERMANN (Freie Universität Berlin)
Shylock, Palestine, and the Second World War.
MARK BAYER (University of Texas at San Antonio)
“Caesar’s word against the world”: Mussolini’s Caesarism and Discourses of Empire.
NANCY ISENBERG (the Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Shakespeare and Censorship during the Second World War: Othello in Occupied Greece
TINA KRONTIRIS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
“In This Hour of History: Amidst These Tragic Events”: Polish Shakespeare during the Second World War
KRYSTYNA KUJAWINSKA COURTNEY (University of Lodz)
Pasternak's Shakespeare in Wartime Russia.
ALEKSEI SEMENENKO (Stockholm University)
Shakespeare as an Icon of the Enemy Culture: Shakespeare in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945
RYUTA MINAMI (Shirayuri College)
“Warlike Noises”: Jingoistic Hamlet during the Sino-Japanese Wars.
ALEX HUANG (Penn State University)
Shakespeare, Stratford, and the Second World War.
SIMON BARKER (University of Lincoln)
Rosalinds, Violas, and Other Sentimental Friendships: The Osiris Players and Shakespeare, 1939-45.
PETER BILLINGHAM (University of Winchester)
Maurice Evans’s “G.I. Hamlet”: Analogy, Authority and Adaptation.
ANNE RUSSELL (Wilfrid Laurier University)
The War at “Home”: Representations of Canada and of World War II in Star Crossed.
MARISSA MCHUGH (University of Ottawa)
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz.
TIBOR EGERVARI (University of Ottawa)
Appropriating Shakespeare in Defeat: Hamlet and the Contemporary Polish Vision of War.
KATARZYNA KWAPISZ-WILLIAMS (University of Lodz)
Contributors
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