File On Gorky
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File On Gorky

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of th


Imprisoned for his revolutionary activities and championed by Checkov, Maxim Gorky ("the bitter") had his first play produced by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. Chekhov wrote, "Gorky is the first in Russia and the world at large to have expressed contempt and loathing for the petty bourgeoisie and he has done it at the precise moment when Russia is ready for protest." Among Gorky's most important plays are Philistines, The Lower Depths and Barbarians.

"Methuen are to be congratulated on launching this series...extremely useful to theatre professionals as well as to students and teachers of drama" (David Bradby, Speech and Drama)

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Yes, you can access File On Gorky by Maxim Gorky, Cynthia Marsh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literatura & Crítica literaria en el arte dramático. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. General Editor's Introduction
  4. 1: A Brief Chronology
  5. 2: The Plays
  6. 3: Non-Dramatic Writing
  7. 4: A Select Bibliography