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UNINA9910461669603321 |
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Adapting Chekhov : the text and its mutations / / edited by J. Douglas Clayton and Yana Meerzon |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-283-64306-5 |
0-203-10522-2 |
1-136-25292-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (335 p.) |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; ; 23 |
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ClaytonJ. Douglas |
MeerzonYana |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. I. On categories, techniques, and methodologies of mutation -- pt. II. Chekhov in the post[ist] context -- pt. III. Performing Chekhov in radical mutations. |
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This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov's dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book pr |
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UNINA9910463191103321 |
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Hughes Amy |
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Spectacles of reform : theater and activism in nineteenth-century America / / Amy E. Hughes |
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Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012 |
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1-283-94160-0 |
0-472-02889-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Theater - United States - History - 19th century |
Theater and society - United States - History - 19th century |
American drama - 19th century - History and criticism |
Spectacular, The, in literature |
Spectacular, The - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-234) and index. |
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The body as/in/at the spectacle -- The delirium tremens: spectacular insanity in The drunkard -- The fugitive slave: Eliza's flight in Uncle Tom's cabin -- The railroad rescue: suffrage and citizenship in Under the gaslight -- Afterword: our sensations, our heroes, our freaks. |
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