The Chekhov Theatre Paperback: A Century of the Plays in Performance - Softcover

Senelick, Laurence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052178395X ISBN 13: 9780521783958

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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This is the first cross-cultural study of Chekhov's plays in production. The book explores how the reputation evolved, and how the presentation of his plays varied and altered from their initial productions in Russia to the most recent postmodern deconstructions of them.

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'In this fascinating and important book, Laurence Senelick traces ... changes from the very first productions of Chekhov in Russia 100 years ago to the latest directorial experiments of post-modern deconstruction. Numerous illustrations inserted in the text at appropriate points accompany this highly readable, informative and most valuable study of theatrical practice - a most welcome contrast to the arid and simple-minded pseudo-theorising of much contemporary 'scholarly' writing on drama.' Plays International

'Senelick's book is more than a simple slice of theatre history: it also reflects more than a hundred years of social, political, and cultural change, inscribed in different productions, and mirrored through the prism of the plays. Senelick's is an ambitious undertaking and an exhaustive piece of research ... the book will act as a very useful guide, a rich resource, and a stimulus to further investigations.' New Theatre Quarterly

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Chekhov Theatre Pb editado por Cambridge

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052178395X
• ISBN 13: 9780521783958
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 460