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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484152903321

Autore

Marsh Cynthia

Titolo

Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015 [[electronic resource] ] : A "Russia of the Theatrical Mind"?  / / by Cynthia Marsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-44333-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 392 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

801.950947

Soggetti

Performing arts

Theater

Motion pictures

Performing Arts

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

Contemporary Theatre

Global/International Theatre and Performance

Theatre Industry

Adaptation Studies

Russia History

Europe, Eastern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Gogol's Russia -- 3. From Merchant to Gentry Russia -- 4. Exposing Cultural Transfer -- 5. Confronting Modern Russias -- 6. Staging Russian Prose -- .

Sommario/riassunto

This book tackles questions about the reception and production of translated and untranslated Russian theatre in post-WW2 Britain: why in British minds is Russia viewed almost as a run-of-the-mill production of a Chekhov play. Is it because Chekhov is so dominant in British theatre culture? What about all those other Russian writers? Many of them are very different from Chekhov. A key question was formulated, thanks to a review by Susannah Clapp of Turgenev’s A



Month in the Country: have the British staged a ‘Russia of the theatrical mind’?