Article: Shakespeare and South Africa.(Review)

Shakespeare and South Africa. By David Johnson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

David Johnson's Shakespeare and South Africa is an ambitious and wide-ranging book that examines with uncommon insight the vexed positioning of Shakespeare studies in both the new and old South Africa. It is particularly effective at dissecting the postwar efforts of English-speaking South Africans to make Shakespeare a "third term that resolves the contradiction between the state and its disaffected subjects" (155), and will no doubt serve for some time to come as a controversial point of reference for broader debates about the future of English studies in South Africa.

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