A Meeting about Laughter: Sketches, Interludes and Theatrical Parodies

ISBN-13: 9783718655816 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str.

John Freedman; John Freedman; V. Mass

Opis

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

List of Plates -- Introduction to the Series -- Introduction -- A Note on Translation and Texts -- WORKS BY NIKOLAI ERDMAN: 1924-1968 -- The Destruction of Europe on Holy Square -- The Qualification Exams -- Two Scenes from Moscow From a Point of View: The Room in Which They Rented an Apartment The Self-Taught Communist -- Three Circus Sketches: The Comradely Court Case at Housing Cooperative No. 1519 -- The PeopLe vs. Vitaly Lazarenko -- The Divorce -- An Interlude for Lez Gurych Sinichkin -- Five Interludes for The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- Two Interludes for Pugachyov -- WORKS BY NIKOLAI ERDMAN WITH VLADIMIR MASS AND OTHERS: 1931-1954 -- Two Music Hall Numbers -- An Interlude for Princess Turandot -- Three Interludes for Hamlet -- An Evening of Theatrical Parodies: -- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of the Danes -- The Work Whistle, or the Stomach Incision -- A Meeting About Laughter -- New People, New Songs Private Schultz -- On Laughter -- APPENDIX -- The Suicide at the Vakhtangov Theater: A Document Two Fragments from The Hypnotist.

O autorze

John Freedman, Harvard University, USA.