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UNINA9910450324603321 |
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Autore |
Witkiewicz Stanisław Ignacy <1885-1939., > |
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Titolo |
Country house / / by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; translated and with an introduction by Daniel Gerould |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam : , : Harwood Academic Publishers, , 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-29990-0 |
1-280-14983-3 |
0-203-98611-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (96 p.) |
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Collana |
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Polish theatre archive ; ; v. 3 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GerouldDaniel Charles <1928-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Polish drama |
Polish literature |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: W małym dworku. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES; LIST OF PLATES; CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ (ALSO KNOWN AS WITKACY); INTRODUCTION; COUNTRY HOUSE; The Characters; ACT ONE; ACT TWO; ACT THREE; APPENDIX; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Country House, a ''''comedy with corpses,'''' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. Witkacy''s send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world. When it was first performed in 1923 in Torun, Country House was judged unsuitable for the general public because it derided moral, social and dramatic convention. Three years later, as directed by the playwright himself in Lwów, the drama proved an |
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