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.
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