Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism

Published by University of Toronto Press 2006

Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism

Edited by: Irena Makaryk and Joseph G Price

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442616585

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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.

Author / Editor information

Makaryk Irena :

Irena R. Makaryk is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa.
Price Joseph G :

Joseph G. Price is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Pennsylvania State University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
A Note on Slavic Transliteration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Introduction When Worlds Collide: Shakespeare and Communisms Irena R. Makaryk and Joseph G. Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Shakespeare in Flux: 1917 to the 1930s
Performance and Ideology: Shakespeare in 1920s Ukraine Irena R. Makaryk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Shakespeare and the Working Man: Communist Applications during Nationalist Periods in Latvia Laura Raidonis Bates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Shakespeare as a Founding Father of Socialist Realism: The Soviet Affair with Shakespeare Arkady Ostrovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
A Five-Year Plan for The Taming of the Shrew Laurence Senelick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
The Forest of Arden in Stalin’s Russia: Shakespeare’s Comedies in the Soviet Theatre of the Thirties Alexey Bartoshevitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
PART TWO. World War, Cold War, and the Great Divide
Wartime Hamlet Irena R. Makaryk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
‘Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all’: New Documentation on the Okhlopkov Hamlet Laurence Senelick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Shakespeare and the Berlin Wall Werner Habicht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
In Search of a Socialist Shakespeare: Hamlet on East German Stages Lawrence Guntner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Shakespeare the Politicizer: Two Notable Stagings in East Germany Maik Hamburger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
PART THREE. National and Cultural Diversity
Translations of Politics / Politics of Translation: Czech Experience Martin Hilský Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Krystyna Skuszanka’s Shakespeare of Political Allusions and Metaphors in Communist Poland Krystyna Kujawinbska Courtney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
War, Lechery, and Goulash Communism: Troilus and Cressida in Socialist Hungary Zoltán Márkus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
The Chinese Vision of Shakespeare (from 1950 to 1990): Marxism and Socialism Xiao Yang Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
From Maoism to (Post) Modernism: Hamlet in Communist China Shuhua Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
PART FOUR. Theorizing Marxist Shakespeares
Caliban/Cannibal/Carnival: Cuban Articulations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest Maria Clara Versiani Galery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Ideology and Performance in East German Versions of Shakespeare Robert Weimann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
Marx Manqué: A Brief History of Marxist Shakespeare Criticism in North America, ca. 1980–ca. 2000 Sharon O’Dair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Index of Shakespearean Plays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 418
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eBook

Published: December 11, 2013
ISBN: 9781442616585