Memorialising Shakespeare Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916–2016

“Edmund G. C. King and Monika Smialkowska’s volume is both timely and very welcome. The editors have done an excellent job of assembling a set of contributors who come at the business of memorialization from a variety of different perspectives … . The volume is comprehensive, wide-ranging, and substantial. … King and Smialkowska are to be highly commended for producing this immensely valuable contribution to Shakespeare Studies.” (Andrew Murphy, Modern Language Review, Vol. 120 (1), January, 2025) 

Edmund G. C. King is a Lecturer in English at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. A book historian with a speciality in the history of reading, his published work has appeared in  Shakespeare  (2014),  Book History (2013), the Yearbook of English Studies (2015) , and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s First Folio (2016).

Monika Smialkowska is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Northumbria University, UK. Her current research interests lie in post-renaissance adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare. Her published work has appeared in Critical Survey (2010), Shakespeare (2011, 2014), The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , Volume Two: The World’s Shakespeare, 1660-Present (2016), and Shakespeare in the North: Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland (2021).