Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism / / ed. by Irena Makaryk, Joseph G Price.

• MitwirkendeR: Bartoshevitch, Alexey,; Bates, Laura Raidonis,; Courtney, Krystyna Kujawinbska,; Galery, Maria Clara Versiani,; Guntner, Lawrence,; Habicht, Werner,; Hamburger, Maik,; Hilský, Martin,; Makaryk, Irena R.,; Márkus, Zoltán,; O'Dair, Sharon,; Ostrovsky, Arkady,; Price, Joseph G.,; Senelick, Laurence,; Wang, Shuhua,; Weimann, Robert,; Zhang, Xiao Yang,
• HerausgeberIn: Makaryk, Irena,; Price, Joseph G,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)

The works of William Shakespeare have long been embraced by communist and socialist governments. One of the central cultural debates of the Soviet period concerned repertoire, including the usefulness and function of pre-revolutionary drama for the New Man and the New Society. Shakespeare survived the byzantine twists and turns of Soviet cultural politics by becoming established early as the Great Realist whose works should be studied, translated, and emulated. This view of Shakespeare as a humanist and realist was transferred to a host of other countries including East Germany, Hungary, Poland, China, and Cuba after the Second World War.Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism traces the reception of Shakespeare from 1917 to 2002 and addresses the relationship of Shakespeare to Marxist and communist ideology. Irena R. Makaryk and Joseph G. Price have brought together an internationally-renowned group of theatre historians, practitioners, and scholars to examine the extraordinary conjunction of Shakespeare and ideology during a fascinating period of twentieth-century history. Roughly historical in their arrangement, the essays in this collection suggest the complicated and convoluted trajectory of Shakespeare's reputation. The general theme that emerges from this study is the deeply ambivalent nature of communist Shakespeare who, like Feste's 'chev'ril glove,' often simultaneously served and subverted the official ideology. Contributors:Alexey BartoshevitchLaura Raidonis BatesMaria Clara Versiani GaleryLawrence GuntnerWerner HabichtMaik HamburgerMartin HilskýKrystyna Kujawinska-CourtneyIrena R. MakarykZoltán MárkusSharon O'DairArkady OstrovskyJoseph G. PriceLaurence SenelickShu-hua WangRobert WeimannXiao Yang Zhang

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Slavic Transliteration -- Introduction When Worlds Collide: Shakespeare and Communisms -- PART ONE. Shakespeare in Flux: 1917 to the 1930s -- Performance and Ideology: Shakespeare in 1920s Ukraine -- Shakespeare and the Working Man: Communist Applications during Nationalist Periods in Latvia -- Shakespeare as a Founding Father of Socialist Realism: The Soviet Affair with Shakespeare -- A Five-Year Plan for The Taming of the Shrew -- The Forest of Arden in Stalin's Russia: Shakespeare's Comedies in the Soviet Theatre of the Thirties -- PART TWO. World War, Cold War, and the Great Divide -- Wartime Hamlet -- 'Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all': New Documentation on the Okhlopkov Hamlet -- Shakespeare and the Berlin Wall -- In Search of a Socialist Shakespeare: Hamlet on East German Stages -- Shakespeare the Politicizer: Two Notable Stagings in East Germany -- PART THREE. National and Cultural Diversity -- Translations of Politics / Politics of Translation: Czech Experience -- Krystyna Skuszanka's Shakespeare of Political Allusions and Metaphors in Communist Poland -- War, Lechery, and Goulash Communism: Troilus and Cressida in Socialist Hungary -- The Chinese Vision of Shakespeare (from 1950 to 1990): Marxism and Socialism -- From Maoism to (Post) Modernism: Hamlet in Communist China -- PART FOUR. Theorizing Marxist Shakespeares -- Caliban/Cannibal/Carnival: Cuban Articulations of Shakespeare's The Tempest -- Ideology and Performance in East German Versions of Shakespeare -- Marx Manqué: A Brief History of Marxist Shakespeare Criticism in North America, ca. 1980-ca. 2000 -- Contributors -- Index -- Index of Shakespearean Plays