J 2023

Passion and Politics in Diego de Brea and Jakub Čermák’s "Edward II" : Marlowe’s Controversial History on Czech Stages

KRAJNÍK, Filip and Ivona MIŠTEROVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Passion and Politics in Diego de Brea and Jakub Čermák’s "Edward II" : Marlowe’s Controversial History on Czech Stages

Authors

KRAJNÍK, Filip (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Ivona MIŠTEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance, POLAND, LODZ UNIV PRESS, 2023, 2083-8530

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.200 in 2022

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

UT WoS

001253632900012

Keywords in English

Christopher Marlowe; Edward II; Czech Republic; Slovenia; Diego de Brea; Jakub Čermák; Elizabethan theatre; LGBT theatre; queer theatre

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 19/7/2024 16:10, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The present article outlines the stage history of Christopher Marlowe’s history Edward II on Czech stages, focusing chiefly on how the respective directors approached the titular character of Marlowe’s play and his sexuality. The study focuses on two post-2000 productions of the play: Diego de Brea’s Edvard Drugy for the Slovenian National Theatre, which toured to the 16th “Divadlo” International Theatre Festival in Pilsen, West Bohemia, in 2008; and Jakub Čermák’s production of Edvard II. for the independent Czech theatre company “Depresivní děti touží po penězích” (Depressive Children Yearn for Money) that premiered in 2023 in Prague. Since for both Czechs and Slovenians, King Edward II is a minor figure of English history and Elizabethan history plays are generally less appealing to them than other genres, both the directors sideline the political dimension of the story to fully explore the issue of social and sexual norms and relate it to current social and cultural discussions both in the West and the former Eastern Bloc. Stressing the motif of social and sexual otherness even more bravely than most recent Western productions, de Brea and Čermák offered not only valuable contributions to both local and global reception of Marlowe’s Edward II, but also raised the visibility of LGBT theatre in a region where it has only a modest history and tradition.

Links

MUNI/A/1054/2022, interní kód MU
Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III
Investor: Masaryk University, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III