No Hamlets [electronic resource] : German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt / Andreas Höfele.

First edition.

9780191787997 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations.

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718543 doi

PR2971.G3 H64 2016eb

822.33

Andreas Höfele presents this critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany, from the 1870s to the Cold War era. He explores the identification of Germany with Hamlet, and shows how a whole strand of Shakespeare reception became embedded in German history over this period.

Andreas Höfele presents this critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany, from the 1870s to the Cold War era. He explores the identification of Germany with Hamlet, and shows how a whole strand of Shakespeare reception became embedded in German history over this period.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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