Shakespeare in Transition: Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic (Performance Interventions)

by Dr Marcela Kostihová (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $110.27

  Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union.