Shakespeare in Transition: Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic (Performance Interventions)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Part I......Page 28
1 ‘The End of History\' in Central and Eastern Europe......Page 30
I. Shakespeare the politician......Page 43
II. CEE\'s political Shakespeare......Page 49
III. Czech Shakespeare and the history of colonial resistance......Page 53
IV. When in doubt, celebrate Shakespeare......Page 59
V. The collision of transitional Czech Shakespeares: 1964 and 1864......Page 63
VI. Czech Shakespeare under normalization and \'real\' socialism......Page 70
VII. Postcommunist Czech Shakespeare......Page 73
Part II......Page 82
3 Translation Wars: Redefining Shakespeare in the Postcommunist Czech Republic......Page 84
I. Brřetislav Hodek: foreignizing the present......Page 89
II. Jitka Sloupová: domesticating Shakespeare for the young guard......Page 97
III. Martin Hilský: Shakespearean heteroglossia......Page 101
IV. Czech Shakespeare translation and the postcommunist future......Page 104
4 Katharina \'Humanized\': Abusing the \'Shrew\' on Prague Stages......Page 107
I. Docčekal\'s masculinist dream......Page 118
II. Happy endings at CD 94......Page 129
III. A \'seedy farce\' at the Summer Shakespeare Festival......Page 136
IV. Towards a gendered postcommunist society......Page 142
5 Politics of Desire: Postcommunist Czech Shakespeare and Non-normative Masculinity......Page 145
I. Homosexuality in the \'First Republic\'......Page 150
II. Communism and homosexuality......Page 153
III. Homosexuality in the postcommunist Czech Republic......Page 154
IV. Performing non-normative masculinity in postcommunist Czech art......Page 156
V. Postcommunist (Shakespearean) masculinity......Page 160
VI. Twelfth Night: a study in postcommunist gendered identity......Page 167
Epilogue: Into the European Union......Page 181
Notes......Page 190
Bibliography......Page 203
Index......Page 218