1st Edition
The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History A Literary and Cultural History
By Nicholas Rzhevsky
Copyright 2009
344 Pages
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Routledge
345 Pages
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Routledge
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This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first encompasses the major productions of directors such as Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Tovostonogov, Dodin, and Liubimov that drew from Russian and world literature. It is based on a close analysis of adaptations of literary works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Blok, Bulgakov, Sholokhov, Rasputin,... Read more
Preface; Predisposition; I. Beginnings and Ends: 1900-1917; History; Literature, Philosophy, and Literary Criticism; Religion; Theater Criticism and the Conditions of Theater: A Little Tomfoolery; The Self, the Saint, and the Moral Charm of Crickets: The Petty Demon; Alexis, Man of God; Cricket on the Hearth; The Moscow Art Theater; Postscripts of the Self; II. Revolution and the Twenties; Political Bouffe; Commedia della Death; III. Adapting to Socialist Realism; The Peasant Hypocrite: Okhlopkov; MAT, Bulgakov, and the Art of Compromise; Bulgakov's Love Affairs; The Lessons of Socialist Realism; IV. The Age of Red Aquarius; The Cold Thaw; The Saving Idiot; At Full Voice; V. The Past Regained; Village Theater; City Theater; VI. The Strange Horse; Intrusions on Political Orthodoxies; The BDT and Tolstoy's Yardstick; In Dostoevsky's Corner: Brother Alesha; Lady Macbeth and Junona and Avos; A Tale of Inspection; VII. The End of Communism and the Survival of Theater; Debating Adaptations; Kharms's Absurdities; Sentimentalism, Musicals, and Bulgakov Return; Dostoevsky's Subversions of Sentiment; The Master on Stage Again: The Master and Margarita; The Performance of Absence: Vladimir Vysotsky; Adapting Tragedy; VIII. The Nineties and Beyond: Ends and Beginnings; Beyond Politics; Beyond Dostoevsky; Beyond Pushkin; Beyond Gogol; Beyond Chekhov; Beyond History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
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Nicholas Rzhevsky
