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Czech plays : modern Czech drama / selected and introduced by Barbara Day.
Van Pelt Library PG5145.E5 C94 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Czech drama--Translations into English.
- Czech drama.
- English drama--Translations from Czech.
- English drama.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 224 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : N. Hern Books, 1994.
- Summary:
- With the emergence of a dissident playwright as the President of Czechoslovakia in 1989, the Czech tradition by which theatre mirrors political life came full circle. Ranging back over the three decades preceding the Velvet Revolution, these four plays show modern Czech writers skilfully commenting on current realities through historical and domestic themes. Published here for the first time in English, Vaclav Havel's Tomorrow!, written anonymously in 1988, is a historical comedy about the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic. Games by novelist Ivan Klima shows a house party going badly wrong as old guilts break the surface. In Joseph Topol's Cat on the Rails two lovers wait for a train that never comes. And Dog and Wolf by the leading woman playwright Daniela Fischerova takes Francois Villon as exemplar of the clash between artist and society.
- Contents:
- Tomorrow / Vaclav Havel ; translated by Barbara Day
- Games / Ivan Klima ; translated by Barbara Day
- Cat on the rails / Josef Topol ; translated by George and Christine Voskovec
- Dog and wolf / Daniela Fischerova ; translated by A.G. Brain.
- ISBN:
- 185459074X
- OCLC:
- 31473474
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