1st Edition
Country House Polish Theatre Archive
98 Pages
by
Routledge
98 Pages
by
Routledge
98 Pages
by
Routledge
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Country House, a ''comedy with corpses,'' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. Witkacy's send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world. When it was first performed in 1923 in Torun, Country... Read more
Introduction to the Series, List of Plates, Chronology of the Life of Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Introduction, Country House, Appendix: Selections from Witkiewicz’s theory of Pure Form in the Theatre
Biography
Stanislav I. Witkiewicz, D. Gerould, D. Gerould
"This volume serves as a very good introduction to the major themes of Witkacy's work....Gerould has provided a solid literary and critical introduction to the work and philosophy of one of twentieth-century Poland's lesser-known artists." - John Ellison, Slavic and European Journal
