Theater in Time. The Meta-temporal Drama of Chekhov, Vvedensky, and...
This study examines temporalities in dramatic works by three playwrights: Anton Chekhov, Alexander Vvedensky, and Vaclav Havel. These playwrights, whose works have heretofore been viewed as unrelated, all engage time in ways that make it the central preoccupation of their plays, both thematically and in terms of structure. Chekhov’s drama is surprisingly Modernist in this regard, and the affinities between his Three Sisters and later plays by Vvedensky and Havel suggest a shared approach to drama as a genre uniquely capable of presenting and critiquing temporal constructs. Drawing on philosophical, scientific, and historical sources (Bergson’s philosophy, the development of Greenwich Mean Time, the Einsteinian Revolution, French...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-3924-4
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Дата выхода: июль 2011