Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015: A "Russia of the Theatrical Mind"? - Hardcover

Marsh, Cynthia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030443329 ISBN 13: 9783030443320

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

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’?

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About the Author

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.

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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’?

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030443329
• ISBN 13: 9783030443320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408