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Quick Change: 28 Theatre Essays and 4 Plays in Translation

by: Gerould, Daniel; Schechner, Richard

Quick Change: 28 Theatre Essays and 4 Plays in Translation

by: Gerould, Daniel; Schechner, Richard

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Copyright: 04/12/2011
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

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Contains previously uncollected writings, including articles about Witkacy's doubles, historical and medical simulations, the Battleship Potemkin, comédie rosse at the Grand Guignol, Polish theater, Grotowski and Kantor, Mrozek and Rózewicz, Polish and Russian symbolists, and erotic French puppets.

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Essays and Translations
Imaginary Invalids: A Theatre of Simulated Patients	p. 1
Margueritte and Pierrot Assassin of His Wife (Essay)	p. 23
ôEulogy for Pierrotö (Translation)	p. 33
Sologub and the Theatre	p. 37
Russian Drama and Polish Theatre in the Communist Era: The Case of Mayakovsky	p. 47
Enter Fortinbras: Shakespeare's Strongman in Modern Eastern European Theatre	p. 59
Fregoli, Witkiewicz, and Quick Change	p. 81
Shaw's Criticism of Ibsen	p. 95
The Apocalyptic Mode and the Terror of History: Turn-of-the-Century Russian and Polish Millenarian Drama	p. 111
Valerii Briusov: Russian Symbolist	p. 129
Historical Simluation and Popular Entertainment: The Potemkin Mutiny from Reconstructed Newsreel to Black Sea Stunt Men	p. 139
Andrzej Bursa (Essay)	p. 163
ôCount Cagliostro's Animalsö (Play Translation)	p. 169
Laocoön at the Frontier, or The Limit of Limits	p. 179
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990): A Visual Artist Works Magic on the Polish Stage	p. 197
Jerzy Grotowski's Theatrical and Paratheatrical Activities as Cosmic Drama: Roots and Continuities in the Polish Romantic Tradition	p. 217
Gorky, Melodrama, and the Development of Early Soviet Drama	p. 223
Contexts for Vatzlav: Mrozek and the Eighteenth Century	p. 237
Witkacy's Doubles	p. 255
Lunacharsky on Melodrama (Essay)	p. 273
ôWhat Kind of Melodrama Do We Need?ö (Translation)	p. 275
Pictorial Citation: Witkacy and Selous's Shakespeare	p. 279
Oscar Méténier and Comédie Rosse: From the Théâtre Libre to the Grand Guignol (Essay)	p. 293
ôMeat-Ticketö (Play Translation)	p. 301
ôLittle Buggerö (Play Translation)	p. 307
Lunacharsky on Revolutionary Laughter (Essay)	p. 315
ôWe Are Going to Laughö (Translation)	p. 319
Iconographic Images in the Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor	p. 323
Henry Monnier and the Erotikon Théâtron: The Pornography of Realism (Essay)	p. 335
ôThe Tart and the Studentö (Play Translation)	p. 341
Tyranny and Comedy	p. 349
Witkacy: An Album of Photos-A Bundle of Letters (Essay and Translation)	p. 371
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Science Fiction	p. 391
Eastern European Bear Hugs: Cinema, Theatre, Opera	p. 401
Candaules and the Uses of Myth	p. 417
Index	p. 440
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