Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism /

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

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 t...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (418 p.)
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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

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