List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Slavic Transliteration
Introduction: When Worlds Collide: Shakespeare and Communisms
IRENA R. MAKARYK and JOSEPH G. PRICE
PART ONE: SHAKESPEARE IN FLUX: 1917 TO THE 1930s
Performance and Ideology: Shakespeare in 1920s Ukraine
IRENA R. MAKARYK
Shakespeare and the Working Man: Communist Applications during Nationalist Periods in Latvia
LAURA RAIDONIS BATES
Shakespeare as a Founding Father of Socialist Realism: The Soviet Affair with Shakespeare
ARKADY OSTROVSKY
A Five-Year Plan for The Taming of the Shrew
lAURENCE SENELICK
The Forest of Arden in Stalin’s Russia: Shakespeare’s Comedies in the Soviet Theatre of the Thirties
ALEXEY BARTOSHEVITCH
PART TWO: WORLD WAR, COLD WAR, AND THE GREAT DIVIDE
Wartime Hamlet
IRENA R. MAKARYK
‘Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all’: New Documentation on the Okhlopkov Hamlet
LAURENCE SENELICK
Shakespeare and the Berlin Wall
WERNER HABICHT
In Search of a Socialist Shakespeare: Hamlet on East German Stages
LAWRENCE GUNTNER
Shakespeare the Politicizer: Two Notable Stagings in East Germany
MAIK HAMBURGER
PART THREE: NATIONAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Translations of Politics / Politics of Translation: Czech Experience
MARTIN HILSKÝ
Krystyna Skuszanka’s Shakespeare of Political Allusions and Metaphors in Communist Poland
KRYSTYNA KUJAWINB SKA COURTNEY
War, Lechery, and Goulash Communism: Troilus and Cressida in Socialist Hungary
ZOLTÁN MÁRKUS
The Chinese Vision of Shakespeare (from 1950 to 1990): Marxism and Socialism
XIAO YANG ZHANG
From Maoism to (Post) Modernism: Hamlet in Communist China
SHUHUA WANG
PART FOUR: THEORIZING MARXIST SHAKESPEARES
Caliban/Cannibal/Carnival: Cuban Articulations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
MARIA CLARA VERSIANI GALERY
Ideology and Performance in East German Versions of Shakespeare
ROBERT WEIMANN
Marx Manqué: A Brief History of Marxist Shakespeare Criticism in North America, ca. 1980–ca. 2000 349
SHARON O’DAIR
Contributors
Index
Index of Shakespearean Plays
