{"product_id":"9783032442567","title":"Grigorii Kozintsev’s Hamlet and King Lear The Poetics of Resistance and Remembrance","description":"\u003ch3\u003eGlobal Shakespeares\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eGrigorii Kozintsev’s Hamlet and King Lear\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Poetics of Resistance and Remembrance\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAlfred Thomas\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Drama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how Grigorii Kozintsev's acclaimed cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare's tragedies \u003cem\u003eHamlet \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e are not simply cultural appropriations but shed light on the political and religious subtexts of the plays themselves. Living under the tyranny of Soviet communism, Kozintsev (the director), Boris Pasternak (the translator) and Dmitri Shostakovich (the composer) were all too familiar with the political and artistic constraints placed on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Like Shakespeare, these Russian artists were forced to steer between defiance and compliance to avoid the violent fate of so many of their fellow artists during Stalin's Terror. Thomas's provocative book makes the phenomenon of \"Global Shakespeares\" not only topical but urgent in an age when the gulf between the \"free\" West and a dictatorial Eastern Europe has narrowed to expose the cruelty and violence at the heart of oppressive regimes across the globe, and the crucial role of the artist in resisting and exposing that tyranny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlfred Thomas\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He is the author of many books on medieval and early modern England and Europe, including \u003cem\u003eShakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War \u003c\/em\u003e(Palgrave, 2014) \u003cem\u003eand Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rites \u003c\/em\u003e(Palgrave, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29 April 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032442567\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62317381157004,"sku":"9783032442567","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032442567","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}