4 Ophelia as Poet: Lesya Ukrainka and the Woman as Artist

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. A Note on Transliteration xv
6. 1 Introduction – Shakespeare in Ukraine: Mirror, Prism, Megaphone 1
7. 2 Calibans All: Shakespeare at the Intersection of Colonialisms 19
8. 3 “North by North West”: Shevchenko and Shakespeare 34
9. 4 Ophelia as Poet: Lesya Ukrainka and the Woman as Artist 44
10. 5 Periphery Against Centre: Hamlet in Early Soviet Ukrainian Poetry 67
11. 6 Shakespeare Right or Wrong? 81
12. 7 The Perfect Production: Les Kurbas’s Analysis of the Early Soviet Audience 99
13. 8 In a Crooked Mirror: Hamlet as Intertext in the USSR 1934–43 115
14. 9 Hamlet, 1943 135
15. 10 Commemoration as Amplification: The “Universal” versus the National Bard 157
16. 11 Antic Dispositions: Shakespeare, War, and Cabaret 181
17. 12 Afterword: Shakespeare at War Today 197
18. Notes 209
19. Index 263