In the twentieth century, Russia has produced more notable drama
than at any other time in its history; yet the results of this
period of burgeoning creativity have been only sporadically
available, and many plays have never been translated at all. In
Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays, Timothy Langen and Justin
Weir present the first collection of translated plays from this
period. This volume introduces the classics of twentieth-century
Russian drama and fills a gap for both students and general
readers.
The volume includes three prerevolutionary plays, three from the
1920s, one socialist realist play, and one from the end of
Stalinism, reflecting the varied cultural and political history of
Russia in the twentieth century. Four plays appear here for the
first time in English, and all eight translations are new. Langen
and Weir also provide an insightful introduction to the literary
and political contexts in which the plays first appeared,
considering the influence that various literary movements had on
the development of Russian drama and exploring the effect of the
increasingly politicized climate of the new Soviet state.
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