Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015

A "Russia of the Theatrical Mind"?

Cynthia Marsh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVI, 392 Seiten

2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-44332-0 (ISBN)

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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'?

Cynthia Marsh is Emeritus Professor of Russian Drama and Literature, University of Nottingham, UK. She has written extensively on Chekhov and Gorky as dramatists, and directed her own translations from Gorky, Ostrovsky and Chekhov. She has curated two exhibitions at Nottingham on Soviet war posters and on the marketing of Chekhov in Britain.

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.-

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2020
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 392 p. 11 illus., 9 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	657 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Adaptation • Chekhov • Cultural Transmission • Gogol • Gorky • Reception • Reference • Russian drama • Translation in performance • Turgenev
ISBN-10	3-030-44332-9 / 3030443329
ISBN-13	978-3-030-44332-0 / 9783030443320
Zustand	Neuware