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Article: Russian Essays on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2000
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Russian Essays on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. Ed. by ALEXANDR PARFENOV and JOSEPH G. PRICE. (International Studies in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries) Cranbury NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 209 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].
In his introduction to this volume of essays by some nine established and emerging Russian academics Joseph G. Price begins by asserting that 'Shakespeare and Russia in the twentieth century is largely the story of Shakespeare's appropriation by Marxism and Communism to foster political ideology, to educate the proletariat and to establish Western roots in the previous great rebellion, the ...