Cultural value in twenty-first-century England
The case of Shakespeare
by Kate McLuskie, Kate Rumbold
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This book examines the unstable relationship between culture and value in the new century and the way that each of these concepts is applied to Shakespeare. It uniquely in uses social policy, anthropology and economics, as well as close readings of Shakespeare's plays, to show how a text from the past becomes part of contemporary culture, and how Shakespeare's writing informs modern ideas of cultural value. It goes beyond the twentieth-century cultural studies debates that argued the case for and against Shakespeare's status, to show how he can exist both as a free artistic resource and as a branded product in the cultural marketplace. It sets out the contemporary consensus about cultural value and examines the intellectual problems that complicate the concepts of 'value' and 'culture'. The way that those concepts are played out in Shakespeare's writing and reproduction is addressed in detail, along with the role of government agencies and institutions in providing a structure for his works. This book will appeal not only to students and academics studying Shakespeare, but also to educators, policy-makers and anyone interested in contemporary cultural dilemmas.
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Kate McLuskie is former director of the University of Birmingham Shakespeare Institute Kate Rumbold is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526116901 / 1526116901
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 16.98 GBP
- Pages272
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
- Biblio NotesIntroduction: Culture, value, Shakespeare 1. Advocacy and analysis 2. The value of value 3. Value and Shakespeare 4. Culture and value 5. Making 'Shakespeare'culture 6. Government and the values of culture 7. Value in Shakespeare institutions 8. Branding Shakespeare Afterword: the continuity of cultural value Bibliography Index
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