TY  - BOOK
AU  - Emily Oliver
PY  - 2017
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2235-3488
SN  - 9781787071636
TI  - Shakespeare and German Reunification
T2  - The Interface of Politics and Performance
DO  - 10.3726/b12693
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1113220
N2  - This book explores the relationship between politics and Shakespeare performance in East Germany before, during and after reunification in 1990. Analysing a wide range of case studies from Berlin as well as more peripheral towns and cities, the author argues that the capacity for political intervention in Shakespeare performances in East Germany was limited by a number of factors, including the influence of the government and an underlying distrust of the public. However, East German theatre practitioners proved useful to the 1989 protest movement precisely because they occupied a unique position at the interface of dissidence and state power. Using Shakespeare performance as a lens, the book examines political and aesthetic censorship before reunification and the enormous financial difficulties theatre faced in its aftermath, asking what role Shakespeare played for Germans both within and beyond the theatre.
KW  - Shakespeare performance, German reunification, political theatre
LA  - English
ER  -