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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464549103321

Titolo

File on Gorky / / compiled by Cynthia Marsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-4081-5377-7

1-4081-5376-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 p.)

Collana

Writer-Files

Disciplina

891.723

Soggetti

Authors, Russian - 20th 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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Abbreviations; General Editor's Introduction; 1: A Brief Chronology; 2: The Plays; Philistines; The Lower Depths; Summerfolk; Children of the Sun; Barbarians; Enemies; The Last Ones; Eccentrics; The Reception; Vassa Zheleznova (first version); Counterfeit Coin; The Zykovs; The Old Man; Egor Bulychev and the Others; Dostigaev and the Others; Vassa Zheleznova (second version); Workaholic Slovotekov; Somov and the Others; Iakov Bogomolov; 3: Non-Dramatic Writing; 4: A Select Bibliography; Imprint Page

Sommario/riassunto

Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of th. Imprisoned for his revolutionary activities and championed by Checkov, Maxim Gorky (""the bitter"") had his first play produced by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. Chekhov wrote, ""Gorky is the first in Russia and the world at large to have expressed contempt and loathing for the petty bourgeoisie and he has done it at the precise moment when