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Shakespeare's Theatre of War (Paperback)
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Shakespeare's Theatre of War (Paperback)
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The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her
military support to the Dutch wars against Spain) and 1604 (when
James at last brought it to an end) was one in which English life
was preoccupied by the menace and actuality of war. The same period
spans English drama's coming of age, from Tamburlaine to Hamlet. In
this thought-provoking book, Nick de Somogyi draws on a wide range
of contemporary military literature (news-letters and
war-treatises, maps and manuals), to demonstrate how deeply wartime
experience influenced the production and reception of Elizabethan
theatre. In a series of vivid parallels, the roles of soldier and
actor, the setting of battlefield and stage, and the context of
playhouse and muster are shown to have been rooted in the common
experience of war. The local armoury served as a props department;
the stage as a military lecture-hall. News from the front line has
always been shrouded in the fog of war. Shakespeare's Rumour is
here seen as kindred to such equally dubious messengers as his
Armado, Falstaff or Pistol; soldiers have always told tall tales,
military ghost-stories that are here shown to have seeped into such
narratives as The Spanish Tragedy and Henry V. This book concludes
with a sustained account of Hamlet, a play which both dramatises
the Elizabethan context of war-fever, and embodies in its three
variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production. By
affording scrutiny to each of its title's components, Shakespeare's
Theatre of War provides a compelling argument for reassessing the
drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within the enduring
context of the military culture and wartime experience of his age.
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