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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825203003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-25291-6

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

Classificazione

PER011000PER011020PER000000

Altri autori (Persone)

ClaytonJ. Douglas

MeerzonYana

Disciplina

891.72/3

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