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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.
List of contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Slavic Transliteration Introduction: When Worlds Collide: Shakespeare and Communisms
IRENA R. MAKARYK and JOSEPH G. PRICE
PART ONE: SHAKESPEARE IN FLUX: 1917 TO THE 1930s Performance and Ideology: Shakespeare in 1920s Ukraine
IRENA R. MAKARYK
Shakespeare and the Working Man: Communist Applications during Nationalist Periods in Latvia
LAURA RAIDONIS BATES
Shakespeare as a Founding Father of Socialist Realism: The Soviet Affair with Shakespeare
ARKADY OSTROVSKY
A Five-Year Plan for
The Taming of the Shrew lAURENCE SENELICK
The Forest of Arden in Stalin’s Russia: Shakespeare’s Comedies in the Soviet Theatre of the Thirties
ALEXEY BARTOSHEVITCH
PART TWO: WORLD WAR, COLD WAR, AND THE GREAT DIVIDE Wartime
Hamlet IRENA R. MAKARYK
‘Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all’: New Documentation on the Okhlopkov
Hamlet LAURENCE SENELICK
Shakespeare and the Berlin Wall
WERNER HABICHT
In Search of a Socialist Shakespeare:
Hamlet on East German Stages
LAWRENCE GUNTNER
Shakespeare the Politicizer: Two Notable Stagings in East Germany
MAIK HAMBURGER
PART THREE: NATIONAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY Translations of Politics / Politics of Translation: Czech Experience
MARTIN HILSKÝ
Krystyna Skuszanka’s Shakespeare of Political Allusions and Metaphors in Communist Poland
KRYSTYNA KUJAWINB SKA COURTNEY
War, Lechery, and Goulash Communism:
Troilus and Cressida in Socialist Hungary
ZOLTÁN MÁRKUS
The Chinese Vision of Shakespeare (from 1950 to 1990): Marxism and Socialism
XIAO YANG ZHANG
From Maoism to (Post) Modernism:
Hamlet in Communist China
SHUHUA WANG
PART FOUR: THEORIZING MARXIST SHAKESPEARES Caliban/Cannibal/Carnival: Cuban Articulations of Shakespeare’s
The Tempest MARIA CLARA VERSIANI GALERY
Ideology and Performance in East German Versions of Shakespeare
ROBERT WEIMANN
Marx Manqué: A Brief History of Marxist Shakespeare Criticism in North America, ca. 1980–ca. 2000 349
SHARON O’DAIR
ContributorsIndex Index of Shakespearean Plays
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By Irena Makaryk and Joseph G. Price
Summary
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.
