“Sing like birds i’th’cage”: Cultivating Shakespeare in Captivity, 1914-2014

A public lecture from the Shakespeare in the Making of Europe workshop, and a pre-show talk for the Jonathan Miller production of King Lear, part of the York International Shakespeare Festival.

For over a century, civilians in labour camps, prison camps, and concentration camps worldwide have read, taught, cited, and performed the works od Shakespeare. This talk investigates how Shakespeare gave meaning to the existence of those interned, but also the ways in which present-day observers may benefit from these internment camp cultures.

Ton Hoenselaars, Professor of Early Modern English History and Culture at Utrecht University, is author of, among other titles, Shakespeare's History Plays (2004), Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (2012), and Shakespeare behind Barbed Wire (forthcoming 2016).

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