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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Orlich, Ileana Alexandra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, an imprint of the Central European University Limited Liability Company, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The political ghosts and ideological phantasms of Nic Ularu's The cherry orchard, a sequel
  • Adapting Moliere and Jules Verne to Soviet censorship: Mikhail Bulgakov's A cabal of hypocrites and The crimson island
  • György Spiró's The impostor: rethinking Moliere's Tartuffe for communist Hungary
  • Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe. Stalinist "traitors" and "saboteurs": Mateï Vișniec's Richard III will not take place or scenes from the life of Meyerhold
  • Staging Hamlet as political no exit in Geza Beremenyi'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