Thirty-three Swoons

Thirty-three Swoons

Author: Martha Cooley

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2007-09-03

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0316028606

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- "The Archivist, Martha Cooley's first novel, was a national bestseller and a "New York Times Notable Book.- With the assurance, complexity, and depth of a work by Bulgakov, DeLillo, or Poe, Martha Cooley's extraordinary second novel is further evidence that she is one of the most gifted writers at work today.


The Archivist

The Archivist

Author: Martha Cooley

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0316049492

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A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of the most jubilantly acclaimed first novels of recent years.


Performing Chekhov

Performing Chekhov

Author: David Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1134657978

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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov

The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov

Author: Vera Gottlieb

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-11-04

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521589178

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This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov - one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire - and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion, first published in 2000, begins with an examination of Chekhov's life, his Russia, and the original productions of his plays at the Moscow Art Theatre. Later film versions and adaptations of Chekhov's works are analysed, with valuable insights also offered on acting Chekhov, by Ian McKellen, and directing Chekhov, by Trevor Nunn and Leonid Heifetz. The volume also provides essays on 'special topics' such as Chekhov as writer, Chekhov and women, and the Chekhov comedies and stories. Key plays, such as The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull, receive dedicated chapters while lesser-known works and genres are also brought to light. The volume concludes with appendices of primary sources, lists of works, and a select bibliography.


Buy Me Love

Buy Me Love

Author: Martha Cooley

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781597091206

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A novel about chance, trust, and a lottery ticket.


Russian Tragifarce

Russian Tragifarce

Author: Julia Listengarten

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781575910338

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"The tradition of Russian tragifarce can be characterized by its strong links to Russian political and cultural history and by its significant role in the development of Russian dramatic literature and theater practice. The book argues that the dualistic character of Russian tragifarce, which is close in spirit and philosophy to Bakhtin's understanding of the medieval carnival, embodies the ambivalent spirit of Russian culture and politics. The book further argues that the tragifarcical perception of the world can be seen as a national characteristic of the self-doubting and ironic Russian sensibility under the influence of a repressive political regime."--BOOK JACKET.


Meyerhold On Theatre

Meyerhold On Theatre

Author: Vsevolod Meyerhold

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-07-03

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1408149281

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A major reissue of a book which is used by students of Meyerhold across the world This was the first collection of Meyerhold's writings and utterances to appear in English and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. These are supplemented by a critical commentary, relating Meyerhold to his period and containing descriptions, based on eye-witness accounts, of all his major productions.


Meyerhold

Meyerhold

Author: Edward Braun

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-23

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 140814879X

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Edward Braun's acclaimed work on Meyerhold available for the first time in paperback Vsevolod Meyerhold began his career in theatre as an actor with the Moscow Art Theatre, and after a spell in the remote provinces, he returned to Moscow at Stanislavski's invitation and founded a new, experimental studio for the Art Theatre. This book takes us through Meyerhold's extraordinary life of experiment and discovery, describing his rehearsal techniques and exercises and provides an acute assessment of his continuing influence on contemporary theatre.


Meyerhold on Theatre

Meyerhold on Theatre

Author: Edward Braun

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1474230229

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Meyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehensive selection from all published material, unabridged and translated from the original Russian, updated and supplemented with a critical commentary relating Meyerhold to his period and eye-witness accounts describing all his productions. The book is illustrated with photographs of Meyerhold's designs and productions. Within this diverse collection of sometimes dense, sometimes lyrical, and always fascinating writings, Meyerhold emerges from this book as a forerunner of such directors as Brecht, Piscator, Planchon and Brook, a relentless enemy of naturalism and a supreme exponent of total theatre whose influence continues to be felt throughout the theatre of today. This fourth edition features a new introduction by Prof. Jonathan Pitches, which helps to demystify some of the terminology Meyerhold and his associates used, and indicates the fundamental connection between culture and politics represented in his life and art.


Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Author: Abby H. P. Werlock

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 3854

ISBN-13: 143814069X

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Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.