Author: Maksim GorkyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political drama, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Last Plays of Maxim Gorki
Author: Maksim GorkyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political drama, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Maxim Gorky
Author: Cynthia MarshPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039103058
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Maxim Gorky was dubbed the father of socialist realism in the Soviet period, but he had forged his career as an internationally known novelist and dramatist some three or more decades earlier. Posing questions that Soviet critics found difficult to confront, the author examines the effects of exile and religion on the content and form of the plays as well as the role played by women, and the personal and political implications of motherhood. All sixteen of Gorky's published plays are covered, and the book explores whether this body of work has themes and styles to unify it. While conflict is central to the core political themes and also infiltrates many aspects of the dramatic style (cartoonish and grotesque), other less expected themes and styles emerge. Viewing the post-revolutionary plays as a development of earlier work leads to a question rarely posed: are the plays written by Gorky in the process of defining the new Party-inspired socialist realism in fact less about socialist realist issues of conformity, and more about Gorky's own painful life experience? And what is equally under the microscope is a search for the monumental style frequently associated with socialist realist theatre: the proposed origins of the spatial grandeur in Gorky's plays come as a surprise.
In the World
Author: Maksim GorkyPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"In the World" by Maksim Gorky (translated by Gertrude M. Foakes). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Twenty-six Men and a Girl
Author: Maksim GorkyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Best Short Stories of Maxim Gorki
Author: Максим ГорькийPhilistines
Author: Andrew UptonPublisher: Faber & Faber Plays
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
An exhuberant new version of Maxim Gorky's play Philistines. A restless bunch of young radicals hang out, have sex, dance, drink, and philosophise at the home of a prosperous decorator.
File On Gorky
Author: Maxim GorkyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408153769
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of th Imprisoned for his revolutionary activities and championed by Checkov, Maxim Gorky ("the bitter") had his first play produced by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. Chekhov wrote, "Gorky is the first in Russia and the world at large to have expressed contempt and loathing for the petty bourgeoisie and he has done it at the precise moment when Russia is ready for protest." Among Gorky's most important plays are Philistines, The Lower Depths and Barbarians. "Methuen are to be congratulated on launching this series...extremely useful to theatre professionals as well as to students and teachers of drama" (David Bradby, Speech and Drama)
Stormy Petrel
Author: Dan LevinPublisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Foma Gordeyev
Author: Maksim GorkyGorky Plays: 2
Author: Maxim GorkyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474278930
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Four key new translations of plays (including three previously unpublished works) written at the turn of the 20th century, charting the descent of Russia into revolution Hailed by Chekhov as the voice of his time, Gorky's four plays offer a panoramic view of Russia in the throes of revolution. THE ZYKOVS is set shortly before the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917. Antipa Zykov is a merchant adventurer. His young wife, Pavla is an unworldly convent-bred girl, too weak to realise these ideals in her stormy marriage. EGOR BULYCHOV is set on the eve of revolution as the rich businessman of the title is given power, after the Tsar's abdication. But the songs of the demonstrating crowds outside his window show that his days are numbered. Subtitled 'The Mother' and hugely controversial at the time of its first production VASSA ZHELEZNOVA, is a tragic portrait of a woman with an iron will determined to root out the corruption in her family in order to keep control of the family business. Written during his most religious phase, THE LAST ONES is about a corrupt police chief and his family who face death at the hands of revolutionaries as he tries to fight back by lynching a young man.