Suspended Lives

dc.contributor.authorCsikai, Zsuzsa
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-20T13:37:07Z
dc.date.available2023-02-20T13:37:07Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-09
dc.description.abstractLucy Caldwell’s 2016 adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters relocates the play into Belfast in the 1990s. This paper examines Caldwell’s adaptation in the context of Irish and Northern Irish rewritings of Chekhov’s dramatic works, paying attention to the motives behind appropriating the Russian works for Irish audiences. Inspired by the perceived affinity between the two seemingly distant cultures, Irish authors have tended to adapt Chekhov (and other Russian classics) to reflect on their own social, cultural, and political environment, often with the aim of shaping the cultural-political landscape of their present. Similarly to earlier Chekhov adaptations, Caldwell’s play engages not only with the original Russian work, but, most importantly, with the cultural-political context of its setting—the five hopeful years preceding the Belfast Agreement (1998), as well as the post-Agreement context of its writing. The play allows its audience in 2016 a complex, retrospective, re-evaluative view of the achievements of the peace process from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century. (ZSCS)en
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dc.identifier.citationHungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 28 No. 2 (2022) ,
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.30608/HJEAS/2022/28/2/6
dc.identifier.eissn2732-0421
dc.identifier.issn1218-7364
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.jtitleHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/345934en
dc.identifier.volume28
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/12097
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.subjectCaldwellen
dc.subjectChekhoven
dc.subjectadaptationen
dc.subjectNorthern Irelanden
dc.subjectBelfast Agreementen
dc.titleSuspended Livesen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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