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This book explores the relationship between politics and Shakespeare performance in East Germany before, during and after reunification in 1990. The book examines political and aesthetic censorship before reunification, and financial difficulties in its aftermath, asking what role Shakespeare played for Germans both within and beyond the theatre.
Review Quotes: "Deutschland ist Hamlet", declared the revolutionary poet Ferdinand von Freiligrath in 1844. [...] Emily Oliver, in Shakespeare and German Reunification, introduces the subject via the shadowy machinations of cultural politics.
(The Times Literary Supplement TLS, June 2018)