Poster, 'Stand not upon the order of your going'

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Poster, 'Stand not upon the order of your going'

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Enlisting Shakespeare This British Army recruitment poster uses a line from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, when in Act 3, Scene 4 Lady Macbeth commands her guests to 'Stand not upon the order of your going. But go at once'. In this context, however, the line is used to urge men to enlist. By the second year of the First World War (1915), the British government was increasingly eager to recruit men for the Army. What was to have been a very short war had turned into a long struggle. Brit...

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Image

Date created

1915

Creator

Parliamentary Recruiting Committee / Bemrose & Sons Ltd.

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1057780

Related subjects

World War, 1914-1918 / War / ink / paper / political posters / offset lithography / United Kingdom

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