The Poetics of Resistance and Remembrance
Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm
Reihe: Global Shakespeares
ISBN: 978-3-032-44256-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
This book explores how Grigorii Kozintsev's acclaimed cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare's tragedies and are not simply cultural appropriations but shed light on the political and religious subtexts of the plays themselves. Living under the tyranny of Soviet communism, Kozintsev (the director), Boris Pasternak (the translator) and Dmitri Shostakovich (the composer) were all too familiar with the political and artistic constraints placed on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Like Shakespeare, these Russian artists were forced to steer between defiance and compliance to avoid the violent fate of so many of their fellow artists during Stalin's Terror. Thomas's provocative book makes the phenomenon of "Global Shakespeares" not only topical but urgent in an age when the gulf between the "free" West and a dictatorial Eastern Europe has narrowed to expose the cruelty and violence at the heart of oppressive regimes across the globe, and the crucial role of the artist in resisting and exposing that tyranny.
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Chapter 1: Grigorii Kozintsev’s Hamlet and King Lear: the Poetics of Resistance and Remembrance.- Chapter 2: “Denmark’s a Prison”: Political Oppression in Elizabethan England and Soviet Russia.- Chapter 3: “The Play’s the Thing”: Surveillance and Reverse-Surveillance in Elizabethan England and Soviet Russia.- Chapter 4: “The Folly of Old Men”: The Crisis of Leadership and the Collapse of Moral Authority in Shakespeare’s England and Soviet Russia.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.
