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Hamlet and the fall of the Berlin wall : the myth of interventionist Shakespeare performance
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Oliver, Emily (2018) Hamlet and the fall of the Berlin wall : the myth of interventionist Shakespeare performance. In: Mancewicz, Aneta and Joubin , A., (eds.) Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance. Reproducing Shakespeare . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 139-154. ISBN 9783319898506
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89851-3
Abstract
The critical reception of Heiner Müller’s 1990 Hamlet/Maschine at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin epitomizes a trend of crediting GDR Shakespeare performance with political influence. Drawing on rehearsal notes and reviews, Oliver challenges the interventionist Shakespeare myth, contrasting the Deutsches Theater’s political involvement with the impact of its Hamlet production on events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall. Shakespeare’s capacity for political intervention at this point was limited by theater practitioners’ reliance on public funding, their close relationships with governmental authority, and an underlying distrust of the masses. Ultimately, GDR artists proved useful to the 1989 protest movement because they occupied a unique position at the interface of dissidence and power.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DD Germany P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet -- Political aspects -- Germany (West), Deutsches Theater (Berlin, Germany), Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 | ||||||
| Series Name: | Reproducing Shakespeare | ||||||
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Cham | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9783319898506 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance | ||||||
| Editor: | Mancewicz, Aneta and Joubin , A. | ||||||
| Official Date: | 9 September 2018 | ||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 139-154 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-89851-3 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 October 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 August 2020 |
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