{"product_id":"shakespeares-afterlife-in-the-royal-collection-dynasty-ideology-and-national-culture-hardcover","title":"Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection: Dynasty, Ideology, and National Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSally Barnden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGordon McMullan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKate Retford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries. Between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth, Shakespeare became entrenched as the English national poet. Over the same period, the monarchy sought repeatedly to demonstrate its centrality to British nationhood. By way of close analysis of a selection of objects from the Royal Collection, this volume argues that the royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife were far more closely interwoven than has previously been realized. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe chapters map the mutual development over time of the relationship between members of the British royal family and Shakespeare, demonstrating the extent to which each has gained sustained value from association with the other and showing how members of the royal family have individually and collectively constructed their identities and performed their roles by way of Shakespearean models. Each chapter is inspired by an object in (or formerly in) the Royal Collection and explores two interconnected questions: what has Shakespeare done for the royal family, and what has the royal family done for Shakespeare? The chapters range across the fields of art, theatre history, literary criticism, literary history, court studies and cultural history, showing how the shared history of Shakespeare and the royal family has been cultivated across media and across disciplines.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSally Barnden, \u003cem\u003eLecturer in Literature and Visual Culture, Swansea University\u003c\/em\u003e, Gordon McMullan, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, King's College London\u003c\/em\u003e, Kate Retford, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of History of Art and Head of the School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck, University of London\u003c\/em\u003e, Kirsten Tambling, \u003cem\u003ePreviously postdoctoral research associate for 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection', and subsequently Associate Lecturer on the Curating the Art Museum programme, Courtauld Institute of Art\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSally Barnden (BA York, MA, and PhD King's College London) is a Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University, and was a postdoctoral research associate for 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection.' She is the author of \u003cem\u003eStill Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 2020) and \u003cem\u003eShakespeare and the Royal Actor\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2024). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGordon McMullan (BA Birmingham, MA Kansas, DPhil Oxford) is a Professor of English at King's College London, where he has worked since 1995; prior to that he was a lecturer in English at Newcastle University. He has held fellowships in the United States, Australia, and Denmark; he has published in the fields of Shakespeare, early modern drama, late-life creativity, and environmental humanities; and in 2016 he received the Globe Theatre's Sam Wanamaker Award for his creation and direction of \u003cem\u003eShakespeare400\u003c\/em\u003e, London's consortium marking the Shakespeare Quatercentenary. He was Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection' (2018-22). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKate Retford (BA, MA, and PhD University of Warwick) is a Professor of History of Art and Head of the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on eighteenth-century British art, particularly on gender, portraiture, and the country house. Her research has been funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the AHRC, the British Academy, and, most recently, the Leverhulme Trust. Her recent publications include \u003cem\u003eThe Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003eThe Georgian London Town House: Building, Collecting and Display\u003c\/em\u003e, co-edited with Susanna Avery-Quash (2019). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKirsten Tambling completed her PhD in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau and William Hogarth. She was a postdoctoral research associate for 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection', and subsequently Associate Lecturer on the Curating the Art Museum programme at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has worked in various museums and collections, including the Royal Collection Trust and Watts Gallery, where she was co-curator of the exhibition James Henry Pullen: Inmate, Inventor, Genius (2018). She has published articles on eighteenth-century art, the intersection of art and psychiatry and the history of collections.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460944707837,"sku":"9780198923152","price":75.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/Zypl4gnkJW9780198923152.webp?v=1777256486","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/shakespeares-afterlife-in-the-royal-collection-dynasty-ideology-and-national-culture-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}