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Author:   Ileana Alexandra Orlich ,  Jozefina Komporaly
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9789633861165

ISBN 10:   9633861160
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   30 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword: The Ghosts of History Redux: Intertextuality, Rewriting, Adaptation Jozefina Komporaly PART I. The Russian and French Masters 1. The Political Ghosts and Ideological Phantasms of Nic Ularu’s The Cherry Orchard, A Sequel 2. Adapting Molière and Jules Verne to Soviet Censorship: The Alchemical Politics of Bulgakov’s A Cabal of Hypocrites and The Crimson Island 3. György Spiró’s The Impostor: Rethinking Molière’s Tartuffe for Communist Hungary PART II: Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe 4. Stalinist “Traitors” and “Saboteurs”: Matéi Vișniec’s Richard III Will Not Take Place or Scenes from the Life of Meyerhold 5. Staging Hamlet as Political No Exit in Géza Bereményi’s Halmi 6. Nedyalko Yordanov’s The Murder of Gonzago: Reading Bulgaria’s Communist Political Culture through Shakespeare’s Hamlet PART III. Inserting God into Politics 7. Specters of State Power, History, and Politics of the Stage: Vlad Zografi’s Peter or The Sun Spots 8. Inserting God into the Communist Personality Cult: Stefan Tsanev’s The Other Death of Joan of Arc Consclusion Bibliography Index

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"""In this fascinating and important comparative study, Ileana Orlich offers a compelling account of the ways in which theater can intervene in public life, even under the pressures of censorship and the hollowing out of language by totalitarian regimes. Using cases from an unusual combination of countries, she shows how playwrights have undertaken creative rewritings of very distant texts or events in order to stage indirect confrontations with the struggles of their time. This highly distinctive study will interest a wide variety of readers working in drama and in comparative literature and in the history of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe."" --David Damrosch"

""In this fascinating and important comparative study, Ileana Orlich offers a compelling account of the ways in which theater can intervene in public life, even under the pressures of censorship and the hollowing out of language by totalitarian regimes. Using cases from an unusual combination of countries, she shows how playwrights have undertaken creative rewritings of very distant texts or events in order to stage indirect confrontations with the struggles of their time. This highly distinctive study will interest a wide variety of readers working in drama and in comparative literature and in the history of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe."" --David Damrosch

Author Information

Ileana Alexandra Orlich is Professor of Romanian, English and Comparative Literature. She is Head of German, Romanian and Slavic Faculty and Director of the Arizona State University Romanian Studies Program and teaches a variety of culture and literature courses with a comparative and interdisciplinary focus.

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