Open to all staff, students and interested members of the public, Dr Catherine Alexander will give a paper inspired by the two dates being marked in 2014: the start of the First World War in 1914 and the birth of Shakespeare in 1564. Dr Alexander will consider the reception and appropriation of Shakespeare's work in the context of war. Here she will uncover a tale in which nationhood and patriotism feature strongly, perhaps unsurprisingly, and where the dramatist figures as contested cultural property.

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