The whirligig of time : essays on Shakespeare and Czechoslovakia / Zdeněk Stříbrný ; edited by Lois Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stříbrný, Zdeněk.

Contributor:

Potter, Lois.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Time in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Czechoslovakia.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Europe, Eastern.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Czechoslovakia.

Physical Description:

258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2007]

Summary:

Zdenĕ k Stribrny, an internationally respected Shakespeare scholar, was Professor of English and American Studies at Charles University, Prague, until the Russian occupation of 1968. He was reinstated after the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989. This volume, prefaced by a new autobiographical introduction, collects papers on Shakespeare, most of which were written originally in English, from various periods of his eventful career. Their two main themes are the role of Time and the Czech critical and theatrical response to Shakespeare, with special emphasis on the various ways in which, during an era of censorship, productions offered coded political readings of the plays.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Bibliography of the published work of professor Zdeněk Stříbrný": pages 234-250.

ISBN:

0874139562

OCLC:

70167841