Irena R. Makaryk. Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn. Les’ Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2004
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Abstract
A full history of Shakespeare productions on the Ukrainian stage has not yet been written.When the 400 th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth was being celebrated, a rather laconic book by Iryna Vanina ''Ukrainian Shakespeareana ,, (Kyiv: Mystetstvo, 1964) appeared, but basically it was the first swallow which did not make a summer yet.Later several essays and articles on this topic were published in various journals and books.It is quite evident that the time for fundamental and analytical investigations has come.The book written by a Canadian Shakespeare scholar Irena Makaryk is a clear case of such exploration.The volume is devoted to the early Shakespeare performances of Ukrainian theatrical companies in the 1920-30s.The central figure of this process, as well as of Makaryk's monograph, is a prominent Ukrainian director Les' Kurbas, whose innovative production of Macbeth can be considered a starting point of Ukrainian theatrical Shakespeareana.Irena Makaryk is not the first scholar expressing special interest in Kurbas's ideas and performances.The book under review reflects the author's good knowledge of many works on the history of Ukrainian stage, including memoirs, several special essays and book chapters on Kurbas written by well-known scholars (primarily by the late Natalia B. Kuziakina).But the Canadian author's task was to put the outstanding director's fate and activities into the context of the national theatrical life of 1920-30s, which was rigidly regulated by Soviet cultural politics.Having described the early Shakespeare performances by Kurbas in Kyiv (Romeo and Juliet in 1918-1919 and Macbeth in 1919-20), the scholar focused on his production of Macbeth in the theatre «Berezil'» in 1924.History of the production is expounded in details and the appropriation of it by Ukrainian audience and theatrical critics is thoroughly set forth.Irena Makaryk paid close attention to all the components of the performance, including sets and costumes, music, choreography and, of course, acting.Most impressive is her analysis of
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.041 | 0.015 |
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