This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern theatre as a dark and troubling analysis of the causes and costs of war. -- .
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 192
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 01 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 0719059445
ISBN 13: 9780719059445