Shakespeare in Ukraine : mirror, prism, megaphone /

"This book is a collection of essays on Shakespeare in Ukraine. The eleven essays range across more than 150 years of history, from the earliest performances and translations of Shakespeare into Ukrainian, the Bard's ambiguous position in Soviet literature, and its mobilization during the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Makaryk, Irene Rima (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press , [2025]
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Appreciation > Ukraine. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > Ukraine. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > In literature. Theater and society > Ukraine. Théâtre et société > Ukraine. Theater > History. Theater and society > History. Ukraine

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Shakespeare in Ukraine : mirror, prism, megaphone
Calibans all : Shakespeare at the intersection of colonialisms
"North by north-west" : Shevchenko and Shakespeare
Ophelia as poet : Lesya Ukrainka and the woman as artist
Periphery against centre : Hamlet in early Soviet Ukrainian poetry
Shakespeare right or wrong?
The perfect production : Les Kurbas's analysis of the early Soviet audience
In a crooked mirror : Hamlet as intertext in the USSR 1934-43
Hamlet, 1943
Commemoration as amplification : the "universal" versus the national bard
Antic dispositions : Shakespeare, war, and cabaret
Afterword : Shakespeare at war today.