ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCE AMONG SERBS
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCE AMONG SERBS
Author(s): MIROSLAV RADONJIĆContributor(s): Jovanka Kalaba (Translator)
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Sociology of Art, History of Art, British Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: Shakespeare; April 1664; April 1764; Charles II; Dunkirk; Cromwell; Tyburn execution site; George III; Prime Minister Pitt; England; monarchy; historical context; American colonies;
Summary/Abstract: “In April 1664, one hundred years had passed since Shakespeare’s birth. England was absorbed in congratulating Charles II, who had sold Dunkirk to the French for two hundred and fifty pounds sterling, and in looking at a skeleton that once was Cromwell gleaming white in cold wind and rain at the Tyburn execution site. In April 1764, two hundred years after Shakespeare was born, England witnessed the early days of George III, a king destined for stupidity, whose councils and illegal one-on-one meetings aimed at devising a resistance politics to progress: first in America against freedom, than in France against democracy, the politics that, during the ministry of the Prime Minister Pitt alone, incurred a debt of eighty million pounds sterling.
Journal: Literary Links of Matica srpska
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 146-150
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
