Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism
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Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism

  1. 418 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism

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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.

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Table of contents

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