![]() The Chinese Vision of Shakespeare (from 1950 to 1990): Marxism and Socialismįrom Maoism to (Post) Modernism: Hamlet in Communist China War, Lechery, and Goulash Communism: Troilus and Cressida in Socialist Hungary Krystyna Skuszanka’s Shakespeare of Political Allusions and Metaphors in Communist Poland Translations of Politics / Politics of Translation: Czech Experience PART THREE: NATIONAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY Shakespeare the Politicizer: Two Notable Stagings in East Germany In Search of a Socialist Shakespeare: Hamlet on East German Stages ‘Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all’: New Documentation on the Okhlopkov Hamlet PART TWO: WORLD WAR, COLD WAR, AND THE GREAT DIVIDE The Forest of Arden in Stalin’s Russia: Shakespeare’s Comedies in the Soviet Theatre of the Thirties Shakespeare as a Founding Father of Socialist Realism: The Soviet Affair with ShakespeareĪ Five-Year Plan for The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare and the Working Man: Communist Applications during Nationalist Periods in Latvia Performance and Ideology: Shakespeare in 1920s Ukraine PART ONE: SHAKESPEARE IN FLUX: 1917 TO THE 1930s Introduction: When Worlds Collide: Shakespeare and Communisms Price Laurence Senelick Shu-hua Wang Robert Weimann Xiao Yang Zhang ![]() Makaryk Zoltán Márkus Sharon O'Dair Arkady Ostrovsky Joseph G. ![]() 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.Ĭontributors: Alexey Bartoshevitch Laura Raidonis Bates Maria Clara Versiani Galery Lawrence Guntner Werner Habicht Maik Hamburger Martin Hilský Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney Irena R. Roughly historical in their arrangement, the essays in this collection suggest the complicated and convoluted trajectory of Shakespeare's reputation. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. The works of William Shakespeare have long been embraced by communist and socialist governments.
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