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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484152903321

Autore

Marsh Cynthia

Titolo

Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945-2015 : A "Russia of the Theatrical Mind"? / / by Cynthia Marsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9783030443337

3030443337

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 392 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

801.950947

301

Soggetti

Performing arts

Theater

Russia - History

Europe, Eastern - History

Soviet Union - History

Theater - History

Cultural industries

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Theatre and Performance Arts

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

Contemporary Theatre and Performance

Global and International Theatre and Performance

Theatre Industry

Adaptation Studies

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'?