John Freedman (ed.)

A Meeting About Laughter

Herausgeber: Freedman, John

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1995. A Meeting About Laughter is a collection of sketches, interludes and theatrical parodies by Nikolai Erdman, Vladimir Mass and others. Translated from the Russian Theatre Archive by John Freedman, Harvard University. Erdman is best known as the author of The Warrant and The Suicide, both written for Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. Also including the transcript of a startling discussion of The Suicide at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1930 and the only surviving fragments of Erdman's third play The Hypnotist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9783718655816
• ISBN-10: 3718655810
• Artikelnr.: 71923645

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Introduction to the Series
Introduction
A Note on Translation and Texts
WORKS BY NIKOLAI ERDMAN: 1924
1968
The Destruction of Europe on Holy Square
The Qualification Exams
Two Scenes from Moscow From a Point of View: The Room in Which They Rented an Apartment The Self
Taught Communist
Three Circus Sketches: The Comradely Court Case at Housing Cooperative No. 1519
The PeopLe vs. Vitaly Lazarenko
The Divorce
An Interlude for Lez Gurych Sinichkin
Five Interludes for The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Interludes for Pugachyov
WORKS BY NIKOLAI ERDMAN WITH VLADIMIR MASS AND OTHERS: 1931
1954
Two Music Hall Numbers
An Interlude for Princess Turandot
Three Interludes for Hamlet
An Evening of Theatrical Parodies:
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of the Danes
The Work Whistle, or the Stomach Incision
A Meeting About Laughter
New People, New Songs Private Schultz
On Laughter
APPENDIX
The Suicide at the Vakhtangov Theater: A Document Two Fragments from The Hypnotist.