An edition of Mayakovsky--plays (1995)

Mayakovsky--plays

Northwestern University Press ed.

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An edition of Mayakovsky--plays (1995)

Mayakovsky--plays

Northwestern University Press ed.

One of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant garde. An early revolutionary, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet society, and three of his plays - all of which were banned until after Stalin's death - reflect his changing assessments of the Revolution. They are collected here with his first, more personal work, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy.

This volume includes Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery play written in 1918 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution; The Bathhouse, a sharp attack on Soviet bureaucracy subtitled "a drama of circus and fireworks"; and The Bedbug, in which a worker with bourgeois pretensions is frozen and resurrected fifty years later, when the world has been transformed into a material paradise.

Mayakovsky's first play, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, reveals the poet's propensity for painful self-dramatization and his flair for grotesque imagery. Fresh, inventive, and shot through with zany humor, Mayakovsky's plays represent a radically new kind of theater.

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English
Pages
274

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Table of Contents

Vladimir Mayakovsky, a tragedy
Mystery-Bouffe
The bedbug
The bathhouse.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-274).
Originally published: The complete plays of Vladimr Mayakovsky. New York : Washington Square Press, 1968.

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Evanston, Ill
Series
European drama classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.72/42
Library of Congress
PG3476.M3 A24 1995, PG3476.M3A24 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
274 p. :
Number of pages
274

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL791416M
Internet Archive
mayakovskyplays0000maya
ISBN 10
0810113392
LCCN
95023932
OCLC/WorldCat
32666010
Library Thing
2863731
Goodreads
118416

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