“…noxiousness of my work:” Miroslav Macháček’s 1971 "Henry V" at the Normalized National Theatre
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.28.08" target="_blank" >10.18778/2083-8530.28.08</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“…noxiousness of my work:” Miroslav Macháček’s 1971 "Henry V" at the Normalized National Theatre
Original language description
The essay focuses on the 1971 production of William Shakespeare's rarely staged historical drama Henry V, directed by Czech director Miroslav Macháček at the Prague National Theatre in a new translation by Czech literary historian and translator Břetislav Hodek. Macháček staged the play shortly after the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. The premiere of the play provoked negative reactions from influential Communist officials, including the leading post-1968 politician Vasil Biľak. Macháček's performance, which, in the director's words, was intended as a universal anti-war parable, became a political topicality that the newly emerging normalisation authorities understood as a deliberate political, anti-socialist provocation. The essay traces the background of the production, including the translation of the play, and the consequences of the staging for Macháček. At the same time, it attempts to unravel a number of ambiguities and ambivalences associated with the period of normalization (1970s and 1980s) and its research. A special focus is given to the production itself as it disturbed the audience with its ambivalence. In this analytical section, the essay works with Norman Rabkin's conception of Henry V, as presented in his essay "Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V," which traces Shakespeare's complex grasp of the historical figure and the events associated with Henry. Macháček, who staged the play several years before this essay by Rabkin, pursued similar intentions with his stage concept. It was this unsettling ambivalence that carried within it the features of both a parable and a political gesture that spoke out against the communist occupation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Multicultural Shakespeare
ISSN
2083-8530
e-ISSN
2300-7605
Volume of the periodical
28
Issue of the periodical within the volume
43
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
153-176
UT code for WoS article
001253632900008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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