Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945-2015 : A "Russia of the Theatrical Mind"? / by Cynthia Marsh.
This book tackles questions about the reception and production of translated and untranslated Russian theatre in post-WW2 Britain: why in British minds is Russia viewed almost as a run-of-the-mill production of a Chekhov play. Is it because Chekhov is so dominant in British theatre culture? What abo...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020. |
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
| Summary: | This book tackles questions about the reception and production of translated and untranslated Russian theatre in post-WW2 Britain: why in British minds is Russia viewed almost as a run-of-the-mill production of a Chekhov play. Is it because Chekhov is so dominant in British theatre culture? What about all those other Russian writers? Many of them are very different from Chekhov. A key question was formulated, thanks to a review by Susannah Clapp of Turgenev's A Month in the Country: have the British staged a 'Russia of the theatrical mind'? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030443329 9783030443320 3030443337 9783030443337 |