Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War

1. Introduction
Alfred Thomas

2. Culture and Dissent in Shakespeare’s England and Cold War Europe
Alfred Thomas

3. ‘The Heart of My Mystery”: The Hidden Language of Dissent in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Grigori Kozintsev’s Film Gamlet

Alfred Thomas

4. “A Dog’s Obeyed in Office”: Subverting Authority in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Grigori Kozintsev’s Korol’ Lir

Alfred Thomas

5. “Faith, Here’s an Equivocator”: Language, Resistance, and the Limits of Authority in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Tom Stoppard’s Cahoots Macbeth

Alfred Thomas

6. “In Fair Bohemia”: The Politics of Utopia in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Bohemia Lies on the Sea”
Alfred Thomas

7. Epilogue
Alfred Thomas

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Poetry and Poetics, Performing Arts, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, European Literature, British and Irish Literature