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Adapting Chekhov : the text and its mutations / edited by J. Douglas Clayton and Yana Meerzon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov's dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book pr
- Contents:
- pt. I. On categories, techniques, and methodologies of mutation
- pt. II. Chekhov in the post[ist] context
- pt. III. Performing Chekhov in radical mutations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-25291-6
- 1-283-64306-5
- 0-203-10522-2
- 1-136-25292-4
- 9780203105221
- OCLC:
- 813005314
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