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Henry V and Richard II made their first and only appearance on the Greek stage in the turbulent 1940s. The first was performed in March 1941, just before the arrival of the German nazis, and the second in November 1947, a year after the problematic referendum on the future of the Greek monarchy and in the midst of the Greek civil war. The producer in both times was the state-funded National Theatre...
The article discusses the reception and signification of select televisual productions of Shakespeare’s history plays on Polish television. My choice of teleplays has been determined by two factors: one the one hand, history plays aired on Polish television were rare and their accessibility limited; on the other hand, I want to illustrate the fate of Shakespeare productions in the context of Polish...
Richard III was very rarely staged in Russian theatre in tsarist and Stalin’s times, because the story of inhuman tyranny provoked associations with Russian political reality. In the period of the so-called “Thaw” (1954ß1964) the play became very popular in the USSR and several scenic productions of it were real events in Russian (and Soviet) theatrical life. In the essay three most original and successful...
This paper looks at two Richard III production in Hungary, the latter of which has since achieved legendary status. Put on just before the 1956-revolution it was often reinterpreted as a revolutionary act, the best example of the early, spontaneous subversion of Shakespeare’s plays in Hungary. However, the play was performed in the first theatre of the nation, strictly controlled by central cultural...
William Shakespeare has been part of the cinema since 1899. In the twentieth century almost a thousand films in some way based upon his plays were made, but the vast majority of those which sought to faithfully present his plays to the cinema audience failed at the box office. Since the start of the twenty-first century only one English language film using Shakespeare’s text has made a profit, yet...
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