Subversive stages: theater in pre- and post-communist Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
Abstract
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 adapting the political crimes and horrifying tactics of totalitarianism to the classical theatre (with Shakespeare a favorite) to reveal the region's traumatic history. By the sustained analysis of the aesthet
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Englisch
Verlag
Central European University Press, an imprint of the Central European University Limited Liability Company
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xx, 217
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