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Book Synopsis The Lower Depths, and Other Plays by : Maksim Gorky
Download or read book The Lower Depths, and Other Plays written by Maksim Gorky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief profile of the Russian writer prefaces the texts of three plays characterized by their realistic portrayal of Russian life
Book Synopsis The Lower Depths, and Other Plays by : Maksim Gorky
Download or read book The Lower Depths, and Other Plays written by Maksim Gorky and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Lower Depths, and Other Plays by : Maksim Gorʹkij
Download or read book The Lower Depths, and Other Plays written by Maksim Gorʹkij and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lower Depths: A Drama in Four Acts by : Maksim Gorky
Download or read book The Lower Depths: A Drama in Four Acts written by Maksim Gorky and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De profundis ad te clamavi. In this phrase, with his penchant for epitome, the late James Huneker summarized the masterpiece of Russia’s single living master of the drama, Maxim Gorky, as he saw it in Berlin under the German title of “Nachtasyl” or “Night Lodging.” “Na Dnye” is the Russian—literally “On the Bottom.” Partly because “The Lower Depths” is a more faithful rendering of the original than “Night Lodging” and partly because it implies so vividly the play’s keynote as the shrewd Huneker detected it beneath a guise alien to both Russian and English, the title adopted by Laurence Irving for the British version has been preferred for its introduction to American audiences by the company which discovered it and first set it on its stage in Moscow, December 31 (our calendar), 1902. In “The Lower Depths” more than in any other single play throughout its history, the Moscow Art Theatre concentrates its dramatic ideals and methods, its esthetic theory and practice, and through the production of this play it most emphatically justifies its artistic faith in spiritual or psychological realism as a dramatic medium of expression. The plays of Tchekhoff, of course, serve the same ends, but no single one of them does so quite as richly as does Gorky’s masterpiece. At the hands of Stanislavsky and his associates, “The Lower Depths” draws much of its convincing power from its unusual use of and dependence on the channels of expression which are peculiar to the art of the theatre. It is almost wholly independent of drama as literature. Less than any play I know, is it possible to imagine its potential effect in the theatre from a reading of its printed lines. In my book, “The Russian Theatre,” I have thus analyzed this factor: “‘The Lower Depths’ is not so much a matter of utterable line and recountable gesture as it is of the intangible flow of human souls in endlessly shifting contact with one another. Awkward but eloquent pauses and emphases, the scarcely perceptible stress or dulling of word or gesture, the nuances and the shadings of which life is mostly made and by which it reveals its meaning—these, and the instinctive understanding of the vision of the playwright by those who seek to interpret him, are the incalculable and unrecordable channels through which ‘The Lower Depths’ becomes articulate at the Moscow Art Theatre.” Just as this theatre discovered or, rather, rescued Tchekhoff as a dramatist, so it first stood sponsor for the author of “Foma Gordeyeff” as a playwright. During the first half of the season of 1902-1903, two of his plays were produced—“Smug Citizens” and “The Lower Depths.” The latter was recognized at once as a work of supreme merit and moment. Tchekhoff himself had written to its youthful author five months before its première: “I have read your play. It is new and unmistakably fine. The second act is very good, it is the best, the strongest, and when I was reading it, especially the end, I almost danced with joy.” At the première, the rival dramatist’s verdict was publicly ratified, for Gorky was called before the curtain twenty times, and the press was unanimously enthusiastic. The play has held its place in the repertory of the Moscow Art Theatre ever since, and eight of its most important rôles are still played by those who created them, just two decades ago.
Download or read book The Lower Depths written by Maxim Gorky and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia was by no means paradise at the turn of the twentieth century, but it was decidedly worse for the poor and homeless community. This play centres around a motley crew of drunkards, vagabonds, and petty criminals whose lives are forever changed by the arrival of mysterious pilgrim Luka. A pillar of Maxim Gorky’s social realism, ‘The Lower Depths’ oozes pessimism, social criticism, and alcoholism. An essential read for fans of both modern and classical Russian literature, from Leo Tolstoy to Boris Akunin. As a five-time Nobel Prize nominee, Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) rightfully holds a spot at the table of the most talented Russian writers. He led a turbulent life as an exile, a dissenter, and a Bolshevik associate. His most notable works include "The Lower Depths", "My Childhood,", "Mother", and "Children of the Sun" all of which are characterised by his realism.
Book Synopsis The Lower Depths, and Other Plays by : Maksim Gorky
Download or read book The Lower Depths, and Other Plays written by Maksim Gorky and published by Ams PressInc. This book was released on 1945 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lower Depths written by Maksim Gorky and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lower Depths" by Maksim Gorky, translated by Jenny Covan and edited by Oliver M. Sayler, is a compelling drama that delves into the lives of the marginalized and downtrodden in Russian society. Set in a squalid basement, the play unfolds as a poignant exploration of poverty, despair, and the human spirit's resilience. Gorky's vivid characters come to life as they grapple with their harsh realities and their dreams of a better life. This play is a powerful commentary on social inequality and remains a classic work of Russian literature that continues to resonate with readers and theater enthusiasts.
Book Synopsis The Lower Depths by : Максим Горький
Download or read book The Lower Depths written by Максим Горький and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian Drama of the Revolutionary Period by : Robert Russell
Download or read book Russian Drama of the Revolutionary Period written by Robert Russell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Russian Drama before the Revolution; Soviet Drama 1917-1921; The Civil War in Soviet Drama; Bulgakov's^R The White Guard and Flight; Satirical Comedy and Melodrama; The Plays of Nikolay Erdman; Mayakovsky's The Bedbug and The Bathhouse; Indirect Social Comment; Towards Socialist Realism
Book Synopsis The Lower Depths and Other Plays by : Maksim Gorky
Download or read book The Lower Depths and Other Plays written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lower Depths written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postindian Conversations is the first collection of in-depth interviews with Gerald Vizenor, one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the Native world today. These lively conversations with the preeminent novelist and cultural critic reveal much about the man, his literary creations, and his critical perspectives on important issues affecting Native peoples at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The book also casts new light on his sometimes controversial ideas about contemporary Native identity, politics, economics, scholarship, and literature.
Book Synopsis The Russian Theatre by : Oliver M. Sayler
Download or read book The Russian Theatre written by Oliver M. Sayler and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New York, New York, New York by : Thomas Dyja
Download or read book New York, New York, New York written by Thomas Dyja and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future. Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place—kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, more like America and less like what it had always been. New York, New York, New York, Thomas Dyja’s sweeping account of this metamorphosis, shows it wasn’t the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory, nor was it a morality tale of gentrification or crime. Instead, three New Yorks evolved in turn. After brutal retrenchment came the dazzling Koch Renaissance and the Dinkins years that left the city’s liberal traditions battered but laid the foundation for the safe streets and dotcom excess of Giuliani’s Reformation in the ‘90s. Then the planes hit on 9/11. The shaky city handed itself over to Bloomberg who merged City Hall into his personal empire, launching its Reimagination. From Hip Hop crews to Wall Street bankers, D.V. to Jay-Z, Dyja weaves New Yorkers famous, infamous, and unknown—Yuppies, hipsters, tech nerds, and artists; community organizers and the immigrants who made this a truly global place—into a narrative of a city creating ways of life that would ultimately change cities everywhere. With great success, though, came grave mistakes. The urbanism that reclaimed public space became a means of control, the police who made streets safe became an occupying army, technology went from a means to the end. Now, as anxiety fills New Yorker’s hearts and empties its public spaces, it’s clear that what brought the city back—proximity, density, and human exchange—are what sent Covid-19 burning through its streets, and the price of order has come due. A fourth evolution is happening and we must understand that the greatest challenge ahead is the one New York failed in the first three: The cures must not be worse than the disease. Exhaustively researched, passionately told, New York, New York, New York is a colorful, inspiring guide to not just rebuilding but reimagining a great city.
Download or read book The Other Paris written by Luc Sante and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris"--
Download or read book My Childhood written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Landmarks in Continental European Literature by : Philip Gaskell
Download or read book Landmarks in Continental European Literature written by Philip Gaskell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting each work in its literary and historical context,Landmarks in Continental European Literaturediscusses thirty-two key works of European literature, from Dante to Brecht. Part of the three-book series,Landmarks in European Literature, which presents the major authors of European literature and their works, from ancient times until the 20th century, this volume is designed for general readers and students, looking for additional guidance in their reading or wishing to understand the context in which these fascinating works were written. Helping and encouraging readers to explore and enjoy the European literary heritage, theLandmarks in European Literatureseries includeLandmarks in Continental European Literature,Landmarks in Classical Literature, andLandmarks in English Literature, all of which will prove valuable at any library supporting literary studies.
