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Mayakovsky: Plays Paperback - 1995 - 1st Edition
by Mayakovsky, Vladimir/ Daniels, Guy/ Payne, Robert
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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.