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Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015

A "Russia of the Theatrical Mind"?

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Authors:
  1. Cynthia Marsh

    1. Emeritus Professor of Russian Drama and Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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  • Charts British responses to Russian theatre from 1945–2015
  • Analyses over 800 productions and reviews
  • Of appeal to students, practitioners, teachers, and researchers

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Prologue: The Project

    • Cynthia Marsh
    Pages 1-9

  3. Setting the Scene

    • Cynthia Marsh
    Pages 11-51

  4. Gogol’s Russia: Plays from the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

    • Cynthia Marsh
    Pages 53-87

  5. From Merchant to Gentry Russia: Plays from the Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

    • Cynthia Marsh
    Pages 89-126

  6. Bridging the Centuries: Chekhov and Gorky

    • Cynthia Marsh
    Pages 127-161

  7. Confronting Modern Russias: Twentieth- to Twenty-First-Century Russian Theatre in Britain

    • Cynthia Marsh
    Pages 163-214

  8. Staging Russian Prose

    • Cynthia Marsh
    Pages 215-254

  9. Epilogue: A “Russia of the Theatrical Mind”?

    • Cynthia Marsh
    Pages 255-265

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 267-392
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About this book

This book tackles questions about the reception and production of translated  and untranslated Russian theatre in post-WW2 Britain: why in British minds is Russia viewed almost as a run-of-the-mill production of a Chekhov play. Is it because Chekhov is so dominant in British theatre culture? What about all those other Russian writers?  Many of them are very different from Chekhov. A key question was formulated, thanks to a review by Susannah Clapp of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country: have the British staged a ‘Russia of the theatrical mind’?

Authors and Affiliations

  • Emeritus Professor of Russian Drama and Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Cynthia Marsh

About the author

Cynthia Marsh is Emeritus Professor of Russian Drama and Literature, University of Nottingham, UK. She has written extensively on Chekhov and Gorky as dramatists, and directed her own translations from Gorky, Ostrovsky and Chekhov. She has curated two exhibitions at Nottingham on Soviet war posters and on the marketing of Chekhov in Britain.

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