1st Edition
Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf
By Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Copyright 2002
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Polish playwright and artist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, is now recognized as Poland's leading theatrical innovator of the interwar years and one of the outstanding creative personalities of the European avant-garde. This volume contains two of Witkacy's "tropical" plays inspired by the playwright's trip to Ceylon and Australia in 1914 with his close friend, the... Read more
Introduction: Tropical Madness – Witkacy’s Journey to the East; Mr. Price, or Tropical Madness (1920–1925); by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz; Witkiewicz’s Foreword to Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf (1921); Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf (1921) by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz; Appendix: Witkacy’s Journey to the Tropics and Itinerary in Ceylon
Biography
Daniel Gerould is Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate School. He is the Editor of Slavic and East European Performance, and has written, translated and edited numerous books and articles on avant-garde Polish and Russian Drama.
