Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics
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by Irena R. Makaryk, et al
Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics FROM THE PUBLISHER Les Kurbas - director, actor, playwright, filmmaker, and translator - was the first artist to introduce Shakespeare to the Ukranian stage. Creating the foundations of Soviet Ukranian theatre and cinema, he was also responsible for its avant-garde direction. Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn is the first book-length study in English of Kurbas's modernist productions of Shakespeare and the first book on Soviet Shakespeare productions in Ukraine in any language.
SYNOPSIS Makaryk (English, U. of Ottawa) examines the Shakespearean productions of director, actor, playwright, film maker and translator Kurbas (1887-1937), who first introduced Shakespeare to the Ukrainian stage, and created the foundations of the Soviet Ukrainian theater and cinema. His avant-garde efforts not being appreciated by the regime, he was executed in the far north, his papers and company destroyed, and his name prohibited even through glasnost. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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