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Subversive stages : theater in pre- and post-communist Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria /
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. Pl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press, an imprint of the Central European University Limited Liability Company,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 217 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9789633861189 9633861187 |