That Third Guy - A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater Krzhizhanovsky SigizmundPevná vazba
That Third Guy - A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater Krzhizhanovsky SigizmundPevná vazba This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky…
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That Third Guy - A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater Krzhizhanovsky SigizmundPevná vazba
This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theater to an English-language audience for the first time. Its plot builds on Alexander Pushkin's poem "Cleopatra," while parodying the themes of Eros and empire in the Cleopatra tales of two writers Krzhizhanovsky adored: Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. The centerpiece is his play That Third Guy (1937), a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror and never performed.
As he scrambles to escape his fate, the end of the Roman Republic thunders on offstage.The volume also features selections from Krzhizhanovsky's compelling and idiosyncratic essays on Shakespeare, Pushkin, Shaw, and the In a chilling echo of the Soviet 1930s, Rome here is a police state, and the Third Guy (a very bad poet) finds himself in its dragnet.
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