| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 23 |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 23.
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| Contents |
Diagnosis and Balagan: the poetics of Chekhov's drama / J. Douglas Clayton -- Rewriting Chekhov in Russia today: questioning a fragmented society and finding new aesthetic reference points / Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu -- The flight of the dead bird: Chekhov's The seagull and Williams's The notebook of Trigorin / Maria Ignatieva -- Talking and walking past each other: Chekhovian "echoes" in Czech drama and theatre / Veronika Ambros -- Howard Barker's (Uncle) Vanya: Chekhov shaken, not stirred / Charles Lamb -- Transtextual crossbreeds in post-communist context: an anthropological analysis of Horia Gârbea's The seagull from the cherry orchard / Diana Manole -- Chekhov in the age of globalization: Janusz Glowacki's The fourth sister / Magda Romanska -- Theatre and subaltern histories: Chekhov adaptation in post-colonial India / Bishnupriya Dutt -- What comes "after Chekhov"? Mustapha Matura and west Indian reiterations of Three sisters / Victoria Pettersen Lantz -- From Moscow to Ballybeg: Brian Friel's richly metabiotic relationship with Anton Chekhov / Martine Pelletier -- Daniel Veronese's "proyecto Chéjov": translation in performance as radical rationality / Jean Graham-Jones -- Canadian Chekhovs: three very different mutations / James McKinnon -- The work of the theatre: the Wooster group adapts to Chekhov's Three sisters in Fish story / Sheila Rabillard -- The Japanization of Chekhov: contemporary Japanese adaptations of Three sisters / Yasushi Nagata -- Interrogating the real: Chekhov's cinema of verbatim. "Ward number six" in Karen Shakhnazarov's 2009 film adaptation / Yana Meerzon |
| Summary |
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov's dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book presents adaptation as |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Adaptations
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| SUBJECT |
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 fast |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- General.
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DRAMA -- Continental European.
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DRAMA -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Adaptations
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clayton, J. Douglas, editor
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Meerzon, Yana, editor
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| ISBN |
9781136252921 |
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1136252924 |
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9780203105221 |
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0203105222 |
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