{"product_id":"9783032320117","title":"Shakespeare Behind Barbed Wire A Cultural History of Internment and Entertainment at Ruhleben Camp, Berlin: 1914-1918, Volume I","description":"\u003ch3\u003eGlobal Shakespeares\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eShakespeare Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Cultural History of Internment and Entertainment at Ruhleben Camp, Berlin: 1914-1918, Volume I\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTon Hoenselaars\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Theater \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eShakespeare 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eShakespeare Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/em\u003e reconstructs the first Shakespeare production of \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/em\u003e in 1915 as a window on the camp theatre, its day-to-day practices, its directors, and their artistic views, as well as the divergent tastes of the audiences. The premiere of \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/em\u003e started a theatre war bringing to the fore the internees’ deepest ambitions and frustrations, but the men’s differences did not affect the success of their Shakespeare Tercentenary festival in 1916. The men now displayed a great sense of unity, but as Hoenselaars argues, this attractive image fashioned by the sources should be recognized as part of a complex bilateral propaganda campaign. Exhaustively drawing on formal camp archives, the internees’ diaries, their letters and creative writing, as well as the Ruhleben story that was fashioned in the camp’s numerous magazines and in the press worldwide, \u003cem\u003eShakespeare Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time reconstructs the profoundly individual side to Ruhleben’s Shakespearean culture in both its local and global contexts, and grants the internees a unique voice that had remained silent for over a century.\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTon Hoenselaars\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He specializes in the international relations of early modern drama, and Shakespeare’s afterlives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032320117\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50547346047116,"sku":"9783032320117","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032320117.jpg?v=1781059805","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032320117","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}