1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461669603321

Titolo

Adapting Chekhov : the text and its mutations / / edited by J. Douglas Clayton and Yana Meerzon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-64306-5

0-203-10522-2

1-136-25292-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; ; 23

Altri autori (Persone)

ClaytonJ. Douglas

MeerzonYana

Disciplina

891.72/3

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. On categories, techniques, and methodologies of mutation -- pt. II. Chekhov in the post[ist] context -- pt. III. Performing Chekhov in radical mutations.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463191103321

Autore

Hughes Amy

Titolo

Spectacles of reform : theater and activism in nineteenth-century America / / Amy E. Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

1-283-94160-0

0-472-02889-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

792.0973/09034

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.