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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 891.72/3
• Classificazione: PER011000PER011020PER000000
• Altri autori: ClaytonJ. Douglas MeerzonYana
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Adapting Chekhov
• ISBN: 1-136-25291-6; 1-283-64306-5; 0-203-10522-2; 1-136-25292-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785995503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.