Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. A Note on Slavic Transliteration xv
6. Introduction When Worlds Collide: Shakespeare and Communisms 1
7. PART ONE. Shakespeare in Flux: 1917 to the 1930s
8. Performance and Ideology: Shakespeare in 1920s Ukraine 13
9. Shakespeare and the Working Man: Communist Applications during Nationalist Periods in Latvia 38
10. Shakespeare as a Founding Father of Socialist Realism: The Soviet Affair with Shakespeare 56
11. A Five-Year Plan for The Taming of the Shrew 84
12. The Forest of Arden in Stalin’s Russia: Shakespeare’s Comedies in the Soviet Theatre of the Thirties 104
13. PART TWO. World War, Cold War, and the Great Divide
14. Wartime Hamlet 117
15. ‘Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all’: New Documentation on the Okhlopkov Hamlet 136
16. Shakespeare and the Berlin Wall 157
17. In Search of a Socialist Shakespeare: Hamlet on East German Stages 177
18. Shakespeare the Politicizer: Two Notable Stagings in East Germany 205
19. PART THREE. National and Cultural Diversity
20. Translations of Politics / Politics of Translation: Czech Experience 213
21. Krystyna Skuszanka’s Shakespeare of Political Allusions and Metaphors in Communist Poland 228
22. War, Lechery, and Goulash Communism: Troilus and Cressida in Socialist Hungary 246
23. The Chinese Vision of Shakespeare (from 1950 to 1990): Marxism and Socialism 270
24. From Maoism to (Post) Modernism: Hamlet in Communist China 283
25. PART FOUR. Theorizing Marxist Shakespeares
26. Caliban/Cannibal/Carnival: Cuban Articulations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest 305
27. Ideology and Performance in East German Versions of Shakespeare 328
28. Marx Manqué: A Brief History of Marxist Shakespeare Criticism in North America, ca. 1980–ca. 2000 349
29. Contributors 375
30. Index 381
31. Index of Shakespearean Plays 401