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Adapting Chekhov - The Text and its Mutations (Hardcover)
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Adapting Chekhov - The Text and its Mutations (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton
Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of
Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive
quality of Chekhov's dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism,
an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic
and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and
continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of
dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page
to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book
presents adaptation as the emerging genre of drama, theatre, and
film. This trend marks the performative and social practices of the
new millennium, highlighting our epoch's need to engage with the
history of dramatic forms and their evolution. The collection
demonstrates that adaptation as the practice of transformation and
as a re-thinking of habitual dramatic norms and genre definitions
leads to the rejuvenation of existing dramatic and performative
standards, pioneering the creation of new traditions and
expectations. As the major mode of the storytelling imagination,
adaptation can build upon and drive the audience's horizons of
expectations in theatre aesthetics. Hence, this volume investigates
the original and transformative knowledge that the story of
Chekhov's drama in mutations offers to scholars of drama and
performance, to students of modern literatures and cultures, and to
theatre practitioners worldwide.
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