Twentieth-Century Russian Drama from Gorky to the Present / / Harold B. Segel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Segel, Harold B.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1979]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 1979
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; ONE In Search of the New Russian: Gorky's Prerevolutionary Plays --; TWO. Gorky's Later Plays: The Soviet Period --; THREE. The Revolt Against Naturalism: Symbolism, Neo-Romanticism, and Theatricalism --; FOUR. The 1920s and Early 1930s: The Revolution and the Civil War in Russian Drama --; FIVE. The 1920s and Early 1930s. Social Comedy, Absurd and Grotesque NEP Satire, Melodrama --; SIX. Out of the Mainstream: Serapions and Oberiuty --; SEVEN. The 1930s: Socialist Construction and Socialist Realism --; EIGHT. The Fantasy World of Yevgeni Shvarts --; NINE. The Gathering Clouds: On the Eve of War --; TEN. The War Years --; ELEVEN. The "Freeze" of 1946 to 1952 --; TWELVE. The "Thaw" of 1953 and 1954 --; THIRTEEN. From the Twentieth Party Congress to 1959: The "Year of Protest" and Its Aftermath --; FOURTEEN. The New Theatricalism --; FIFTEEN. The Dissidents: Ivanov, Amalrik, Solzhenitsyn --; SIXTEEN. From Dissent to Divertissement: The 1960s and 1970s --; Appendix: Guide to Pronunciation --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231898843; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/sege94472
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Harold B. Segel.

Looks at the golden years of the Russian theater during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by looking at the Moscow Art Theater, Stanislovsky, the Method, and the avant-garde of Meyerhold, Tairov, and Vakhtangov.