Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War

by Alfred Thomas

Book Overview

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. Rather than simply exploring how Shakespeare's plays were appropriated for political purposes in Communist Central and Eastern Europe, the book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137438940
• ISBN13: 9781137438942
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"