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Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays
Contributor(s): Langen, Timothy (Author), Weir, Justin (Author)

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 ISBN: 0810113732     ISBN-13: 9780810113732
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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Published: May 2000
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Annotation: In the twentieth century, Russia has produced more notable drama than at any other time in its history; yet the results of this period of burgeoning creativity have been only sporadically available, and many plays have never been translated at all. In Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays, Timothy Langen and Justin Weir present the first collection of translated plays from this period. This volume introduces the classics of twentieth-century Russian drama and fills a gap for both students and general readers.

The volume includes three prerevolutionary plays, three from the 1920s, one socialist realist play, and one from the end of Stalinism, reflecting the varied cultural and political history of Russia in the twentieth century. Four plays appear here for the first time in English, and all eight translations are new. Langen and Weir also provide an insightful introduction to the literary and political contexts in which the plays first appeared, considering the influence that various literary movements had on the development of Russian drama and exploring the effect of the increasingly politicized climate of the new Soviet state.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Anthologies (multiple Authors)
- Drama | European - General
Dewey: 891.724
LCCN: 00008680
Series: European Drama Classics
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.51" W x 8.11" L (1.06 lbs) 354 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region - Russia
Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/2000 pg. 1188
Library Journal 04/01/2000 pg. 101
Library Journal 03/15/2000
 
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Russia produced more notable dramas in the twentieth century than at any other time in its history, yet many of the plays from this period have been only sporadically available in English, and others have never been translated before. For each of these eight works, Timothy Langen and Justin Weir provide an insightful introduction to the literary, cultural, and political contexts in which the plays first appeared, considering the influence that various literary movements had on the development of Russian drama and exploring the effect of the increasingly politicized climate of the new Soviet state.

Included in this volume:

Sacred Blood, by Zinaida Gippius; The Unknown Woman, by Alexander Blok; Vladimir Mayakovsky, by Vladimir Mayakosky; The Case of the Entry Room, by Victor Ardov; Squaring the Circle, by Valentin Kataev; Elizaveta Bam, by Daniil Kharms; Grain, by Vladimir Kirshon; and The Guests, by Leonid Zorin.
 
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