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Country house / by Stanisaw Ignacy Witkiewicz ; translated and with an introduction by Daniel Gerould.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy, 1885-1939.
- Series:
- Polish theatre archive ; v. 3.
- Polish theatre archive ; v. 3
- Standardized Title:
- W małym dworku. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polish drama.
- Polish literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 54 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 House was judged unsuitable for the general public because it derided moral, social and dramatic convention.
- Contents:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES; LIST OF PLATES; CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ (ALSO KNOWN AS WITKACY); INTRODUCTION; COUNTRY HOUSE; The Characters; ACT ONE; ACT TWO; ACT THREE; APPENDIX; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Notes:
- Translation of: W maym dworku.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781135299903
- 1135299900
- 9781280149832
- 1280149833
- 9780203986110
- 0203986113
- OCLC:
- 890529364
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