Subversive Stages

Ileana Alexandra Orlich is President's Professor of Romanian, English and Comparative Literature, Director of Romanian Studies Program, Head of German, Romanian & Slavic Faculty in the School of International Languages and Cultures (SILC), at Arizona State University (ASU)

Foreword: The Ghosts of History Redux: Intertextuality, Rewriting, Adaptation

Jozefina Komporaly


PART I. The Russian and French Masters

1. The Political Ghosts and Ideological Phantasms of Nic Ularu’s The Cherry Orchard, A Sequel

2. Adapting Molière and Jules Verne to Soviet Censorship: The Alchemical Politics of Bulgakov’s A Cabal of Hypocrites and The Crimson Island

3. György Spiró’s The Impostor: Rethinking Molière’s Tartuffe for Communist Hungary


PART II: Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe

4. Stalinist “Traitors” and “Saboteurs”: Matéi Vișniec’s Richard III Will Not Take Place or Scenes from the Life of Meyerhold

5. Staging Hamlet as Political No Exit in Géza Bereményi’s Halmi

6. Nedyalko Yordanov’s The Murder of Gonzago: Reading Bulgaria’s Communist Political Culture through Shakespeare’s Hamlet


PART III. Inserting God into Politics

7. Specters of State Power, History, and Politics of the Stage: Vlad Zografi’s Peter or The Sun Spots

8. Inserting God into the Communist Personality Cult: Stefan Tsanev’s The Other Death of Joan of Arc


Consclusion

Bibliography

Index