Ideologická apropriace: Tragédie Coriolana

Moravec, Jaromír

This master's thesis is concerned with the appropriative and adaptational afterlife of William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus. Particularly with the reasons for and strategies behind appropriative efforts from contradicting ideological movements. Appropriative adaptations of the play appeared already within the first hundred years after Shakespeare's passing with the first being Nahum Tate's The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth which recontextualises Shakespeare's text to support the cause of the Abhorrers during the Exclusion Crisis. Then, less than forty years later, John Dennis wrote his adaptation The Invader of His Country which represents the adapted text as supporting the Whigs in opposition of the Stuarts, who threatened to return on the English Throne with the support of foreign armies. This chapter's analysis seeks to establish the appropriative strategies that allowed single text to be claimed by two opposing political camps. That knowledge is then applied in the next chapter which focuses on the interwar period during which was Shakespeare claimed by a number of contradicting ideologies making their way on the political spectrum in the wake of the fall of a number of Europe's monarchies. This chapter is primarily focused on interpretative texts rather than on dramatic rewrites. These...

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