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Author Orlich, Ileana Alexandra, author.

Title Subversive stages : theater in pre- and post-communist Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria / Ileana Alexandra Orlich
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, an imprint of the Central European University Limited Liability Company, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 217 pages)
Contents The political ghosts and ideological phantasms of Nic Ularu's The cherry orchard, a sequel -- Adapting Molière and Jules Verne to Soviet censorship: Mikhail Bulgakov's A cabal of hypocrites and The crimson island -- György Spiró's The impostor: rethinking Molière's Tartuffe for communist Hungary -- Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe. Stalinist "traitors" and "saboteurs": Matéï Vișniec's Richard III will not take place or scenes from the life of Meyerhold -- Staging Hamlet as political no exit in Géza Bereményi's Halmi -- Nedyalko Yordanov's The murder of Gonzago: reading Bulgaria's communist political culture through Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Inserting god into politics. Specters of state power, history, and politics of the stage: Vlad Zografi's Peter or the sun spots -- Inserting god into the communist personality cult: Stefan Tsanev's The other death of Joan of Arc
Summary Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Plays by Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian dramatists are examined, who are "retrofitting" the past by adapting the political crimes and horrifying tactics of totalitarianism to the classical theatre (with Shakespeare a favorite) to reveal the region's traumatic history. By the sustained analysis of the aesthet
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2022)
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject East European drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Russian drama -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
French drama -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
English drama -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
Communism and literature -- Europe, Eastern
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Communism and literature
East European drama
English drama -- Adaptations
Literature -- Adaptations
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016017690
ISBN 9789633861189
9633861187