Mayakovsky Plays |
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Author:
| Mayakovsky, Vladimir |
Translator:
| Daniels, Guy |
Series title: | European Drama Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1339-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1995 |
Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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Imprint: | TriQuarterly Books |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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Mayakovsky: Plays includes
Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery 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 become a material paradise. The collection also includes Mayakovsky's more personal first...
More Description Mayakovsky: Plays includes Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery 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 become a material paradise. The collection also includes Mayakovsky's more personal first play, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy.