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Shakespeare Behind Barbed Wire: A Cultural History of Internment and Entertainment at Ruhleben Camp, Berlin: 1914-1918, Volume I

Shakespeare Behind Barbed Wire: A Cultural History of Internment and Entertainment at Ruhleben Camp, Berlin: 1914-1918, Volume I

Hoenselaars, Ton

Hardcover

Series: Global Shakespeares

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryTheater History

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 28, 2026

ISBN10: 3032320119
ISBN13: 9783032320117
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 28 2026
Pages: 342
Language: English

Shakespeare was a vital rallying point for the 4,500 British internees held at the Ruhleben Camp (near Berlin) for the duration of World War I. This book now makes the internees speak through their engagement with Shakespeare. To do so, it examines in detail the collection of plays and poems in the camp library, analyses the surviving Shakespeare lectures at the camp school, and studies the multiple ways in which he was actively read, performed, cited, and rewritten by the internees.

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