| Description |
1 online resource (101 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Polish Theatre Archive ; Volume 6 |
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Routledge Harwood Polish and East European theatre archive ; Volume 6.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the series; List of plates; Chronology of the life and work of Bruno Jasieński; Introduction; Jasieński, Lunacharsky, Moor, and The Mannequins' Ball ; Sources for the Chronology and Introduction, with a note on the translation; Introduction by Anatolii Lunacharsky to the 1931 Moscow edition of The Mannequins' Ball; The Mannequins' Ball |
| Summary |
This play, by Futurist poet Bruno Jasienski, is an outstanding example of the joining of left-wing politics and avant-garde interest in human mechanization that characterized the experimental theatre of Poland in the inter-war years. Stalinism and the purges cut short Jasienski's career and prevented productions of his play for many years - except for a brilliant constructivist staging in Prague in 1933. The Mannequins' Ball can now take its place along with Capek's R.U.R. as one of the major twentieth-century dramas making use of the themes and techniques of human autom |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 26, 2014) |
| Subject |
Russian drama -- Translations into English
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DRAMA -- European -- General.
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Russian drama
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gerould, Daniel, translator, author of introduction, etc
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| ISBN |
9781134425341 |
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1134425341 |
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9781315079745 |
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1315079747 |
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