Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945-2015 A Russia of the Theatrical Mind

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by Cynthia Marsh
English | 2020 | ISBN: 3030443329 | 399 Pages | True PDF | 5.32 MB

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’?