@article{940408,
      recid = {940408},
      author = {Sawyer, Robert,},
      title = {Shakespeare between the World Wars : the Anglo-American  sphere /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 314 pages)},
      abstract = {Shakespeare Between the World Wars draws parallels between  Shakespearean scholarship, criticism, and production from  1920 to 1940 and the chaotic years of the Interwar era. The  book begins with the scene in Hamlet where the Prince  confronts his mother, Gertrude. Just as the closet scene  can be read as a productive period bounded by devastation  and determination on both sides, Robert Sawyer shows that  the years between the World Wars were equally positioned.  Examining performance and offering detailed textual  analyses, Sawyer considers the re-evaluation of Shakespeare  in the Anglo-American sphere after the First World War.  Instead of the dried, barren earth depicted by T.S. Eliot  and others in the 1920s and 1930s, this book argues that  the literary landscape resembled a paradoxically fertile  wasteland, for just below the arid plain of the time lay  the seeds for artistic renewal and rejuvenation which would  finally flourish in the later twentieth century.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/940408},
}