Russian Symbolist Theater

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781468308129

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Although by writers better known for their verse and narrative prose, the plays of the Symbolists were not intended, like the dramatic poems of the Romantics, for the study rather than the stage. Instead, they are highly theatrical creations in a new style that demanded a new style of production. Meyerhold played a decisive role in the new Symbolist theatre and it was his production of Blok’s The Puppet Show in Komissarzhevskaya’s Theatre that launched the new direction in Russian drama. Among the works collected here are the plays The Puppet Show and The Rose and the Cross (Blok), The Triumph of Death (Sologub), The Comedy of Alexis and The Venetian Madcaps (Kuzmin), Thamyris Kitharodos (Annensky), and The Tragedy of Judas (Remizov) and essays by Briusov, Blok, Ivanov, Bely, Sologub, and Andreyev. Rounding out this essential anthology are Michael Green’s general introduction, as well as insightful prefaces for each writer, placing the plays and essays into their cultural and historical contexts.

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis Publishers
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : English drama
ISBN : 088233798X

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Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1468306359

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Russian Symbolist Theater by Michael Green Pdf

Although by writers better known for their verse and narrative prose, the plays of the Symbolists were not intended, like the dramatic poems of the Romantics, for the study rather than the stage. Instead, they are highly theatrical creations in a new style that demanded a new style of production. Meyerhold played a decisive role in the new Symbolist theatre and it was his production of Blok's The Puppet Show in Komissarzhevskaya's Theatre that launched the new direction in Russian drama. Among the works collected here are the plays The Puppet Show and The Rose and the Cross (Blok), The Triumph of Death (Sologub), The Comedy of Alexis and The Venetian Madcaps (Kuzmin), Thamyris Kitharodos (Annensky), and The Tragedy of Judas (Remizov) and essays by Briusov, Blok, Ivanov, Bely, Sologub, and Andreyev. Rounding out this essential anthology are Michael Green's general introduction, as well as insightful prefaces for each writer, placing the plays and essays into their cultural and historical contexts.

Author : Ronald E. Peterson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9789027215345

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A History of Russian Symbolism by Ronald E. Peterson Pdf

The era of Russian Symbolism (1892-1917) has been called the Silver Age of Russian culture, and even the Second Golden Age. Symbolist authors are among the greatest Russian authors of this century, and their activities helped to foster one of the most significant advances in cultural life (in poetry, prose, music, theater, and painting) that has ever been seen there. This book is designed to serve as an introduction to Symbolism in Russia, as a movement, an artistic method, and a world view. The primary emphasis is on the history of the movement itself. Attention is devoted to what the Symbolists wrote, said, and thought, and on how they interacted. In this context, the main actors are the authors of poetry, prose, drama, and criticism, but space is also devoted to the important connections between literary figures and artists, philosophers, and the intelligentsia in general. This broad, detailed and balanced account of this period will serve as a standard reference work an encourage further research among scholars and students of literature.

Author : Ronald E. Peterson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027276902

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A History of Russian Symbolism by Ronald E. Peterson Pdf

The era of Russian Symbolism (1892-1917) has been called the Silver Age of Russian culture, and even the Second Golden Age. Symbolist authors are among the greatest Russian authors of this century, and their activities helped to foster one of the most significant advances in cultural life (in poetry, prose, music, theater, and painting) that has ever been seen there. This book is designed to serve as an introduction to Symbolism in Russia, as a movement, an artistic method, and a world view. The primary emphasis is on the history of the movement itself. Attention is devoted to what the Symbolists wrote, said, and thought, and on how they interacted. In this context, the main actors are the authors of poetry, prose, drama, and criticism, but space is also devoted to the important connections between literary figures and artists, philosophers, and the intelligentsia in general. This broad, detailed and balanced account of this period will serve as a standard reference work an encourage further research among scholars and students of literature.

Author : Avril Pyman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521024307

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A History of Russian Symbolism by Avril Pyman Pdf

This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, from its initial hostile reception as a symptom of European decadence to its absorption into the mainstream of Russian literature, and eventual disintegration. It focuses on the two generations of writers whose work served as the seedbed of Existentialism in thought and of Modernism in prose and the performing arts, and reassesses their achievements in the light of modern research. At the centre of the study are the texts themselves, with prose quoted in English translation and poetry given in the original Russian with prose translations. There is a valuable bibliography of primary sources and an extensive chronological appendix. This book will fill a long-felt gap, and will be invaluable to students and teachers of Russian and comparative literature, Symbolism, modernism, and pre-revolutionary Russian culture.

Author : Frantisek Deak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015003443315

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Symbolist Theater by Frantisek Deak Pdf

"Frantisek Deak's Symbolist Theater is a welcome and fundamental contribution to the re-evaluation of European avant-garde theatre. Deak's analysis of symbolist theatre rebuts earlier approaches which concluded, as Haskell Block did in the 1969 Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama, that attempts to stage symbolist plays were "doomed to failure," because of "an inherent opposition between symbolist premises and the demands of sustained theatrical elaboration." These earlier critiques analyzed symbolist theatre from the viewpoint of literary criticism, but Deak's book employs different methods by taking "as a premise that theater exists in performance" (7). Symbolist Theater leans conceptually on Czech structuralists and Russian formalists as it makes "theater criticism based on the reconstruction of the semantic gesture of the production;" criticism which "takes the text into consideration as one aspect of the structure" (10), and sees the symbolist theatre project as an effort to re-define the "signifying process" in general (132). Despite its title, however, Symbolist Theater is not an analysis of the whole symbolist theatre movement, but instead a focus on French symbolist theatre alone".

Author : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442249271

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Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre by Laurence Senelick Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on individual actors, directors, designers, entrepreneurs, plays, playhouses and institutions, Censorship, Children’s Theater, Émigré Theater, and Shakespeare in Russia. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Theatre.

Author : Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317455745

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The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History by Nicholas Rzhevsky Pdf

This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first encompasses the major productions of directors such as Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Tovostonogov, Dodin, and Liubimov that drew from Russian and world literature. It is based on a close analysis of adaptations of literary works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Blok, Bulgakov, Sholokhov, Rasputin, Abramov, and many others."The Modern Russian Stage" is the result of more than two decades of research as well as the author's professional experience working with the Russian director Yuri Liubimov in Moscow and London. The book traces the transformation of literary works into the brilliant stagecraft that characterizes Russian theater. It uses the perspective of theater performances to engage all the important movements of modern Russian culture, including modernism, socialist realism, post-moderninsm, and the creative renaissance of the first decades since the Soviet regime's collapse.

Author : Andrew Barratt,Robert Russell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349207497

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Russian Theatre In The Age Of Modernism by Andrew Barratt,Robert Russell Pdf

Author : Claude Schumacher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521230144

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Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918 by Claude Schumacher Pdf

This fourth volume in the series Theatre in Europe charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political upheaval.

Author : Robert Leach,Victor Borovsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521432200

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A History of Russian Theatre by Robert Leach,Victor Borovsky Pdf

A comprehensive history of Russian theatre, written by an international team of experts.

Author : Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 080148331X

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The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal Pdf

A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.

Author : Laurence P. Senelick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477302989

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Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists by Laurence P. Senelick Pdf

Although younger than most European theatrical traditions, the Russian professional theater has generated an exciting body of criticism and theory which until recently has remained unknown or nearly inaccessible in the West. This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics of drama and the theater from 1828 to 1914. The focus of these essays, most published here for the first time in English, is on the so-called Crisis in the Theater of 1904 to 1914, a lively debate between the symbolists and the naturalists that evoked brilliant polemic writing from Meyerhold, Bely, Bryusov, and others. Along with Chekhov's amusing critique of Sarah Bernhardt ("monstrously facile!") and Ivanov's abstruse analysis of the essence of tragedy, the essays form a running commentary on the development of the Russian theater: Pushkin on his predecessors, Gogol on his own work, Belinsky on Gogol, Sleptsov on Ostrovsky and Leskov, Bely on Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ("enervated people, trying to forget the terror of life"), the symbolists on one another. Each selection is printed in its entirety, with extensive notes, and a lengthy introduction places all the pieces within their historical and cultural contexts to comprise a brief history of Russian dramatic theory before the revolution. This volume is essential reading for all who wish to extend their knowledge of the Russian contribution to theatrical history, theory, and criticism.

Author : Ronald E. Peterson
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Russian poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002571482

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The Russian Symbolists by Ronald E. Peterson Pdf