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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A 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 HILSKY 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 ZOLTAN MARKUS 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 Manque: A Brief History of Marxist Shakespeare Criticism in North America, ca. 1980-ca. 2000 349 SHARON O'DAIR Contributors Index Index of Shakespearean Plays
