Celebrating Shakespeare Commemoration and Cultural Memory
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Clara Calvo is Professor of English Studies at Universidad de Murcia, Spain. She is the author of Power Relations and Fool-Master Discourse in Shakespeare (1991) and co-authored The Literature Workbook (with Jean-Jacques Weber, 1998). She has edited, with Ton Hoenselaars, European Shakespeares (The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 8, 2008), a special issue of Critical Survey on Shakespeare and the Cultures of Commemoration (2010), and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy for Arden Early Modern Drama (with Jesús Tronch, 2013). Her articles have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, The Year's Work in English Studies, and several other journals and collections of essays. Coppélia Kahn is Professor of English, Emerita, at Brown University, Rhode Island. She has published widely on feminist theory, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and Shakespeare's place in American culture. She is author of Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (1981) and Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women (1997). She also co-edited Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism (with Gayle Green, 1985).'Wide-ranging in both space and time, this richly illustrated volume offers a fascinating, and often entertaining, series of studies of the numerous different ways in which Shakespeare has been celebrated and commemorated over the centuries.' Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
'Celebrating Shakespeare is a timely, engaging, and thought-provoking collection. Building on current developments in the study of collective memory, it offers important insight into the productive relationships between the past and the present, memory and identity, and culture and politics. Simultaneously, it contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding Shakespeare's cultural capital and the uses to which it can be put. While theoretically sophisticated, the volume is very readable and will certainly capture the interest of students of cultural history and anybody who likes to hear a fascinating, little-known tale from the past … It lays the foundations for discussing other cases of Shakespearean commemorations, especially in the wake of the 2016 Quatercentenary.' Monika Smialkowska, English: Journal of the English Association
'Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory, a handsome volume of fifteen essays, ably edited by Clara Calvo and Coppélia Kahn, analyses the way in which commemorative practices have shaped our idea of Shakespeare and have helped create a powerful cultural institution or, as Graham Holderness has termed it, a 'myth'. … this important volume presents us with many riches and is itself a fitting, self-reflective commemorative act celebrating, but also interrogating, Shakespeare and what we've made him.' Irena R. Makaryk, Archiv