This volume contains the text of both "The Suicide" and Erdman's first major albeit less known work, "The Warrant". Although both plays were written in the early 1920s, they were haunted by the political spectre of totalitarianism and it was only in the 1980s that they began to be staged regularly worldwide. The plays themselves, full of political satire and paradox, show the skill of this playwright. In addition, the historical context of the plays and Erdman's use of language are discussed.
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Nikolai Erdman is best known in the West for his second full-length play, BThe Suicide/B, called `a work of genius' by Konstantin Stanislavsky and `empty and even harmful' by the self-proclaimed dilettante in theatrical matters, Joseph Stalin. As is well known now, it was the latter opinion which dictated that BThe Suicide/B, written in the late 1920s, would gather dust in archives and personal libraries for 40 years before it could be performed.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian
Original Language: Russian
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Nadezhda Petrovna, Semyon Semyonovich, Ivan Ivanovich, Anastasiya Nikolayevna, Serafima Ilinishna, Mariya Lukyanovna, Olimp Valerianovich, Tamara Leopoldovna, Pavel Sergeyevich, Avtonom Sigismundovich, Aristarkh Dominikovich, Yegor Timofeyevich, Cleopatra Maximovna, Margarita Ivanovna, Valerian Olimpovich, Varvara Sergeyevna, Alexander Petrovich, Lord Almighty, Father Yelpidy, Nikolai Erdman, Enter Nadezhda, Mister Smetanich, Raisa Filippovna, Oleg Leonidovich, Enter Nastya New!
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A room in the Gulyachkin apartment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Nadezhda Petrovna, Semyon Semyonovich, Ivan Ivanovich, Anastasiya Nikolayevna, Serafima Ilinishna, Mariya Lukyanovna, Olimp Valerianovich, Tamara Leopoldovna, Pavel Sergeyevich, Avtonom Sigismundovich, Aristarkh Dominikovich, Yegor Timofeyevich, Cleopatra Maximovna, Margarita Ivanovna, Valerian Olimpovich, Varvara Sergeyevna, Alexander Petrovich, Lord Almighty, Father Yelpidy, Nikolai Erdman, Enter Nadezhda, Mister Smetanich, Raisa Filippovna, Oleg Leonidovich, Enter Nastya New!
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- Two Plays from the New Russia (Russian Theatre Archive) by John Freedman in Front Matter
- Chekhov: The Major Plays (Signet Classics) by Anton Chekhov in Front Matter
- Aleksandr Vampilov: The Major Plays (Russian Theatre Archive) by Alma Law in Front Matter
- Sergei Radlov: The Shakespearian Fate of a Soviet Director (Russian Theatre Archive) by Dav Zolotnistky in Front Matter
- A Chekhov Quartet (Russian Theatre Archive,) by Vera Gottlieb in Front Matter
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- A Meeting About Laughter (Russian Theatre Archive,) by John Freedman in Front Matter, and Back Cover
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- Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre: A Documentary Record (Contemporary Theatre Studies) by S. Bassnett in Back Cover
- Two Plays from the New Russia (Russian Theatre Archive) by John Freedman in Back Cover
- Edward Bond: Letters 1 (Contemporary Theatre Studies) (Vol 1) by Ian Stuart in Back Cover
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