Mayakovsky: Plays
Mayakovsky: Plays by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Guy Daniels
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0810113392 | 276 Pages | EPUB | 1.0 MB
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0810113392 | 276 Pages | EPUB | 1.0 MB
One of Russia's greatest poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant-garde. Despite his revolutionary youth, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet society, and three of his plays–all banned until after Stalin's death–reflect his changing assessments of the Revolution.
Mayakovsky: Plays includes Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery written in 1918 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution; The Bathhouse, a sharp attack on Soviet bureaucracy subtitled "a drama of circus and fireworks"; and The Bedbug, in which a worker with bourgeois pretensions is frozen and resurrected fifty years later, when the world has become a material paradise. The collection also includes Mayakovsky's more personal first play, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy.