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Subversive stages : theater in pre- and post-communist Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria / Ileana Alexandra Orlich

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2017Copyright date: �2017Description: 1 online resource (xx, 217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789633861189
  • 9633861187
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Subversive stages.DDC classification:
  • 809.2/99498 23
LOC classification:
  • PN849.E9 O73 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The political ghosts and ideological phantasms of Nic Ularu's The cherry orchard, a sequel -- Adapting Moli�ere and Jules Verne to Soviet censorship: Mikhail Bulgakov's A cabal of hypocrites and The crimson island -- Gy�orgy Spir�o's The impostor: rethinking Moli�ere's Tartuffe for communist Hungary -- Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe. Stalinist "traitors" and "saboteurs": Mat�e�i Vi�sniec's Richard III will not take place or scenes from the life of Meyerhold -- Staging Hamlet as political no exit in G�eza Berem�enyi'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
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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

Includes bibliographical references and index

The political ghosts and ideological phantasms of Nic Ularu's The cherry orchard, a sequel -- Adapting Moli�ere and Jules Verne to Soviet censorship: Mikhail Bulgakov's A cabal of hypocrites and The crimson island -- Gy�orgy Spir�o's The impostor: rethinking Moli�ere's Tartuffe for communist Hungary -- Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe. Stalinist "traitors" and "saboteurs": Mat�e�i Vi�sniec's Richard III will not take place or scenes from the life of Meyerhold -- Staging Hamlet as political no exit in G�eza Berem�enyi'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

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