1st Edition
Subversive Stages Theater in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria
By Ileana Alexandra Orlich
Copyright 2017
238 Pages
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Central European University Press
Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or inter-theatricality as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Plays by Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian dramatists are examined, who are retrofitting the past by... Read more
Foreword: The Ghosts of History Redux: Intertextuality, Rewriting, Adaptation, PART I. The Russian and French Masters, PART II: Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe, PART III. Inserting God into Politics Consclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Ileana Alexandra Orlich is Professor of Romanian, English and Comparative Literature. She is Head of German, Romanian and Slavic Faculty and Director of the Arizona State University Romanian Studies Program and teaches a variety of culture and literature courses with a comparative and interdisciplinary focus.
