Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists
Title | Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence P. Senelick |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 393 |
Release | 2014-09-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1477302980 |
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.
The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History
Title | The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Rzhevsky |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 2016-09-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317455746 |
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.
A History of Russian Symbolism
Title | A History of Russian Symbolism PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald E. Peterson |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 269 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9027215340 |
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.
The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig
Title | The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig PDF eBook |
Author | Olga Taxidou |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1134424574 |
No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous world-wide as an actor, manager, director, playwright, designer, and most importantly an author and theorist, whose books were translated into German, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Hungarian, and Danish. Although an essential parallel to the European avant-garde, Craig was often read as "exceptional" and highly innovative in his native Britain, thus, The Mask not only appears as Craig's main cosmopolitan project but also at times functions as a surrogate stage for his experiments in theater practice. The book has a comprehensive chronology, extensive notes and a bibliography making it an essential text for undergraduates, postgraduates, actors, theatre professionals, designers, directors, researchers and writers in the fields of theatre studies (especially theater set and lighting) and theater history.
Theories of the Avant-garde Theatre
Title | Theories of the Avant-garde Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Bert Cardullo |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0810887045 |
In this collection of essays by avant-garde theatre's most creative practitioners--directors, playwrights, performers, and designers--these writings provide direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating playwriting and performance of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918
Title | Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918 PDF eBook |
Author | Claude Schumacher |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 568 |
Release | 1996-09-26 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521230148 |
This fourth volume in the series Theatre in Europe charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political upheaval.
A History of Collective Creation
Title | A History of Collective Creation PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2013-07-24 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137331305 |
Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century.