Twentieth-Century Russian Drama from Gorky to the Present / Harold B. Segel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segel, Harold B., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1979]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at the golden years of the Russian theater during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by looking at the Moscow Art Theater, Stanislovsky, the Method, and the avant-garde of Meyerhold, Tairov, and Vakhtangov.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

ONE In Search of the New Russian: Gorky's Prerevolutionary Plays

TWO. Gorky's Later Plays: The Soviet Period

THREE. The Revolt Against Naturalism: Symbolism, Neo-Romanticism, and Theatricalism

FOUR. The 1920s and Early 1930s: The Revolution and the Civil War in Russian Drama

FIVE. The 1920s and Early 1930s. Social Comedy, Absurd and Grotesque NEP Satire, Melodrama

SIX. Out of the Mainstream: Serapions and Oberiuty

SEVEN. The 1930s: Socialist Construction and Socialist Realism

EIGHT. The Fantasy World of Yevgeni Shvarts

NINE. The Gathering Clouds: On the Eve of War

TEN. The War Years

ELEVEN. The "Freeze" of 1946 to 1952

TWELVE. The "Thaw" of 1953 and 1954

THIRTEEN. From the Twentieth Party Congress to 1959: The "Year of Protest" and Its Aftermath

FOURTEEN. The New Theatricalism

FIFTEEN. The Dissidents: Ivanov, Amalrik, Solzhenitsyn

SIXTEEN. From Dissent to Divertissement: The 1960s and 1970s

Appendix: Guide to Pronunciation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-231-89884-3

OCLC:

1100434719