Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945-2015 - Cynthia Marsh
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Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945-2015
A "Russia of the Theatrical Mind"?
di Cynthia Marsh
Editore: Springer International Publishing
EAN: 9783030443351
ISBN: 3030443353
Pagine: 408
Formato: Paperback
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