{"product_id":"shakespeare-in-the-world-of-communism-and-socialism-9781442626034","title":"Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187497623895,"sku":"9781442626034","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-in-the-world-of-communism-and-socialism-9781442626034","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}