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Shakespeare and South Africa

Title

Shakespeare and South Africa / David Johnson.

Author

Johnson, David, 1962 May 20-

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description

276 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Shakespeare and South Africa is a lively and topical study of the teaching and criticism of Shakespeare in South Africa from the early nineteenth century to the present day. David Johnson's work makes a valuable contribution to the well-established historical and theoretical debates focused on the colonial and neo-colonial use of Shakespeare. Johnson's wide range of source materials - including old Cape Department of Education examination papers and exam reports, as well as newspaper articles and essays - provides detailed and original research into the formulation of a literary education policy in South Africa. The perceptive insights into pedagogical and cultural issues in the South African colonial 'periphery' make for fascinating reading, and a significant resource for Southern African cultural studies.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Based on the author's thesis.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-272) and index.

Contents

Social function of literature: 1800-1850 -- Humanism and racism: 1850-1900 -- Colonial subject and Shakespeare: 1916 -- Minorities against English studies: the 1930s -- Shakespeare and Apartheid: the 1950s -- Traveling theory: to the present.

ISBN

0198183151
9780198183150

LCCN

95036180

OCLC

ocm33101804
33101804
SCSB-14692305

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library