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"Thomas has written a lively, intelligent, and interesting study of the politics of Shakespearean drama and its relationship to the literature and theater of Cold-War (and post-Cold-War) Europe. He examines Shakespeare's deliberate employment of religio-political codes that call attention to the persecution of English Catholics, the repressive practices of the English government and the socially disruptive effects of religious antagonisms. In analyzing Russian film versions of Hamlet and King Lear as indirect criticisms of the Soviet system, the Czech-English playwright Tom Stoppard's Cahoot's Macbeth in the context of post-1968 Czech political resistance, and Ingeborg Bachmann's poem 'Bohemia Lies on the Sea,' Thomas highlights the political potential of Shakespearean drama that can be translated into powerful political protest and analysis in changed (modern) circumstances." - Arthur Marotti, Wayne State University, USA
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Book Title: Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War
Authors: Alfred Thomas
Series Title: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438959
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43894-2Published: 22 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49415-6Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43895-9Published: 22 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2731-3204
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3212
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 265
Topics: Film History, Poetry and Poetics, Performing Arts, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, European Literature, British and Irish Literature