“…He begins with an 'Introduction: Distinguishing Pity'; followed by chapters on the Aristotelian framework; Buddhism and pity; the pieta in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Shakespeare on pity; Milton's pitiless Christianity; pity and charity in the early novel; Blake's views on pity; the Victorian debate; from Austen to Dickens and George Eliot; Brecht and Chekhov on pity and self-pity; 'war, and the pity of war'; Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith; pity, immigration and the colony and finally three contemporary texts by Michel Faber, Kazuo Ishiguro and Cormac McCarthy…”

“…Morson and Schapiro argue that Smith's heirs include Austen, Anton Chekhov, and Leo Tolstoy as well as John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Parini on Tolstoy, with a Postscript on Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and the Performing Arts -- 12. Chekhov and the Annas -- III MUSICALIZING THE LITERARY CLASSIC (Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev) -- 13. …”

“…After giving an overview of the tragic theatre canon - including chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, post-colonial drama, and Beckett - it also looks at the contribution which philosophers have brought to this subject, before ranging across other art-forms and areas of debate. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Petersburg -- Uzhas in the subtext: Tolstoy's The death of Ivan Ilych -- What time is it? Where are we going? Chekhov's The cherry orchard: the story of a verb -- Two kinds of beauty -- The sentencing of Fyodor Karamazov -- The defiled and defiling physiognomy of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov -- Dostoevsky's Anecdote from a child's life: a case of bifurcation -- The triple vision: Dostoevsky's The peasant Marey -- The making of a Russian icon: Solzhenitsyn's Matryona's home -- Dostoevsky's concept of reality and its representation in art -- In the interests of social pedagogy: Maxim Gorky's polemic with Dostoevsky -- Bakhtin's Poetics of Dostoevsky and Dostoevsky's Christian declaration of faith -- Vyacheslav I. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Where Are We Going?" Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard: The Story of a Verb -- Two Kinds of Beauty -- The Sentencing of Fyodor Karamazov -- The Defiled and Defiling "Physiognomy" of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov -- Dostoevsky's "Anecdote from a Child's Life": A Case of Bifurcation -- The Triple Vision: Dostoevsky's "The Peasant Marey" -- The Making of a Russian Icon: Solzhenitsyn's "Matryona's Home" -- Critical Perspectives -- Dostoevsky's Concept of Reality and Its Representation in Art -- In the Interests of Social Pedagogy: Maxim Gorky's Polemic with Dostoevsky -- Bakhtin's Poetics of Dostoevsky and "Dostoevsky's Christian Declaration of Faith" -- Vyacheslav I. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Aleksei Remizov's English-language Translators: New Material --14. Chekhov and the Buried Life of Katherine Mansfield --15. …”

“…Volume 1 includes writings by Cervantes, Dickens, Terence Rattigan, Lewis Carroll, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, Anton Chekhov, John Galsworthy, Luigi Pirandello, Sholom Aleichem, W.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The ego takes over (I) : enter the dark inversion -- The ego takes over (II) : the dark and sentimental versions -- The ego takes over (III) : quest, voyage and return, comedy -- The ego takes over (IV) : tragedy and rebirth -- Losing the plot : Thomas Hardy, a case history -- Going nowhere : the passive ego : the twentieth-century dead end, from Chekhov to Close encounters -- Why sex and violence? …”

“…It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater - Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow - and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960's, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. …”

“…An historical account of the emergence and development of one of the most generative concepts of our times - creativity - provides a theoretical backdrop to a critical discussion of the creativity of acting - a discussion that includes analyses of Denis Diderot, George Henry Lewes, William Archer, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov, Michel Saint-Denis, Zeami and Eugenio Barba. …”

“…Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts, Lynn Mally reconstructs the history of the amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height of the Stalinist purges. …”

“…Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing-particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagàwa Ryünosuke-Goyet shows that these authors were able tocreate brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. ln this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher end periodicills. …”

“…Among Karlinsky's full-length works are major studies of Marina Tsvetaeva and Nikolai Gogol, Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin; editions of Anton Chekhov's letters; writings by Russian émigrés; and correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson. …”

Acceso a las primeras páginas

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Posner -- Fragments of a creative life : introduction to five new sources / Stefan Aquilina -- Letters to Anton Chekhov, 1899-1904 -- Comments by Doctor Dapertutto on 'The Denial of Theatre' by Yury Aikhenvald, 1914 -- Theatre pamphlets I : on dramaturgy and theatre culture, 1921 -- From Meyerhold's speech at the discussion 'Creative methods at the Meyerhold Theatre', 1930 -- On the spatial composition of performance, 1936 -- A theatre company as a Meyerholdian experiment in grotesque / Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith -- The evolution of Proper Job : working with Meyerhold in contemporary British theatre / James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe Whitehead -- Biomechanical diasporas : practitioner perspectives on the transmission of Meyerhold's techniques / Marcelo Bulgarelli, Terence Mann (Chapman), Claudio Massimo Paternò, Robert Reid -- Transmission impossible / Ralf Räuker -- Decoding the riddle : applying Meyerhold's conception of the director's explication / Bryan Brown and Olya Petrakova -- Meyerhold's influence on twentieth-century Japanese theatre / Min Tian -- Nesting dolls : sketches in search of Meyerhold in Australia / Chris Hay and Ian Maxwell -- An unexpected triangle : Politis, Meyerhold, and Karaghiozis in interwar Greece / Antonis Glytzouris -- Biomechanical resonances in Turkey : the working method of Studio Oyuncuları / Burç İdem Dinçel -- Meyerhold's influence on the production processes of Peforma Teatro (Brazil) / Arlete Cavaliere -- Meyerhold in the 21st century : the meeting points of biomechanics and postdramatic performance / Diana Monteiro Toombs -- The new Meyerhold theatre : visualizing a lost architectural experiment / Rachel Hann -- Theatrical biomechanics and movement science / Darren Tunstall -- Biomechanics in lockdown : teaching Meyerhold in the age of Covid-19 / Jonathan Pitches…”