SHAKESPEARE AND EASTERN EUROPE by Zdenek Stribrny ( 9780198711643 )

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Title:

SHAKESPEARE AND EASTERN EUROPE

By:

Zdenek Stribrny

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

17 February, 2000

Series:

Oxford Shakespeare Topics

Pages:

176

Description:

Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare. This fascinating and broad-ranging account explores for the first time Shakespeare's impact across Eastern Europe, from the tours of the English Comedians in his own time to today. It describes his profound influence on Russian literature and criticism, and his major role in the national revivals from Poland and the Czech lands to Serbia and Bulgaria, and shows how his plays were appropriated for political ends but also how his humanism became an increasingly inspiring voice ofdissent.

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Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. This is the first full account of Shakespeare's impact on the whole of Eastern and East Central Europe up to the present day. Starting with the tours of the English Comedians on the Continent during Shakespeare's lifetime and shortly after his death, it traces their routes as far as Poland (Gdansk, Warsaw) and the core of the Habsburg Empire (Prague, Vienna, Graz). Later chapters explore the profound Shakespearian influence on Russian drama, literature, and criticism since the 18th century-Tsarina Catherine II's Russian adaptations of Merry Wives and Timon, Tolstoy's attack on King Lear, Stanislavsky's interpretation of Hamlet and Othello-and Shakespeare's major role in the national revivals in Poland, the Czech lands, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria.Chapters on Shakespeare after the Bolshevik revolution and behind the Iron Curtain deal with the appropriation of his plays for political interpretations but also with the ways his humanism became an increasingly inspiring voice of dissent from Stalinist totalitarianism. The book evaluates the Shakespearian achievements of the film-maker Grigori Kozintsev, the poet and translator Boris Pasternak, the composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich, and the stage designer Josef Svoboda as well as the more controversial contributions of the critic Jan Kott and the playwright and director Bertolt Brecht.

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4 illustrations, 2 maps

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