The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold [Paperback]

The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It presents a detailed picture of the Russian directors work from when it first emerged on the modern stage to its multifarious present-day manifestations.

Part I: Histories

Part I: Histories

Introduction

1. Vsevolod Meyerhold and Cinema

2. Meyerhold, the Musician
Nathan Thomas

3. Meyerhold in the 1930s: Language, Text, Performance

4. Meyerholds Hamlet: An Unrealised Dream

Michelle Assay

5. Looking at Meyerholds Unseen Theatre

6. Performing Communism, or, What if we Took Meyerholds Politics Seriously?

Teemu Paavolainen

Introduction

7. Meyerhold and Stanislavsky: Forty Years of Cordial Disagreement

8. An Unknown Legacy: Uncovering Traces of Savva Mamontovs Work in Meyerholds Conditional Theatre

9. Meyerholds Female Collaborators

10. The Influence of Giovanni Grasso on Meyerholds Works, Theories,lÃI