Abstract
Abstract
This chapter presents a new account of the Cambridge Marlowe Society’s participation in the Elizabethan Festival in Berlin in 1948, in particular the participation within it of military intelligence officer and Cambridge academic Noel Annan and Education Adviser Robert Birley. Planned before the Airlift to instil confidence in British political and cultural leadership, the Festival, including George Rylands’s production of Measure for Measure, became a celebration of German resistance to the Russian blockade and an anticipation of West Germany’s future role in Europe. The chapter evaluates competing readings of the political and cultural agencies involved in the organization of the Festival, questions the alleged participation of the British Council, suggests the possible involvement of the Cultural Relations Department (CRD) and links this to the perceived importance of the Marlowe Society’s ‘Western’ freedom from political alignment.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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