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Mayakovsky: Plays

Mayakovsky: Plays Paperback - 1995 - 1st Edition

by Mayakovsky, Vladimir/ Daniels, Guy/ Payne, Robert

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Northwestern Univ Pr, 1995. Paperback. New. northwestern university press ed edition. 276 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches.
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  • Title Mayakovsky: Plays
  • Author Mayakovsky, Vladimir/ Daniels, Guy/ Payne, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northwestern Univ Pr
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # __0810113392
  • ISBN 9780810113398 / 0810113392
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.77 x 5.13 x 0.86 in (19.74 x 13.03 x 2.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mayakovsky, Vladimir - Translations into
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95023932
  • Dewey Decimal Code 891.724

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From the rear cover

One of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant garde. An early revolutionary, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet society, and three of his plays - all of which were banned until after Stalin's death - reflect his changing assessments of the Revolution. They are collected here with his first, more personal work, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy. This volume includes Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery play 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 been transformed into a material paradise. Mayakovsky's first play, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, reveals the poet's propensity for painful self-dramatization and his flair for grotesque imagery. Fresh, inventive, and shot through with zany humor, Mayakovsky's plays represent a radically new kind of theater.

About the author

VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY (1893-1930) was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright. He is among the foremost representatives of early-twentieth century Russian Futurism.

GUY DANIELS has translated widely from Russian. He is the editor and translator of Russian Comic Fiction.