1st Edition
The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman
196 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1995. Russian Theatre Archive- Volume 1. Newly translated by John Freedman, Erdmans's first biographer, Nikola Erdman's two classic tragicomedies, 'The Warrant' and 'The Suicide', come to life as brilliant, eccentric and eminently performable works for the theatre as well as fascinating documents of the theatrical boom and social upheaval that took place in Russia in the 1920s.... Read more
Chapter ACT II; Chapter ACT III; Chapter ACT I; Chapter ACT II; Chapter ACT III; Chapter ACT IV; Chapter ACT V;
Biography
Edited by Freedman, John
"Nikolai Erdman is best known in the West for his second full-length play, BThe Suicide/B, called `a work of genius' by Konstantin Stanislavsky and `empty and even harmful' by the self-proclaimed dilettante in theatrical matters, Joseph Stalin. As is well known now, it was the latter opinion which dictated that BThe Suicide/B, written in the late 1920s, would gather dust in archives and personal libraries for 40 years before it could be performed."
