File on Gorky
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Bibliographic Information
File on Gorky
（Writer-files / general editor, Simon Trussler ; associate editor, Malcolm Page）
Methuen Drama, 1993
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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)
Table of Contents
- Part 1 A brief chronology. Part 2 The plays: "Philistines"
- "The Lower Depths", "Summerfolk"
- "Children of the Sun"
- "Barbarians"
- "Enemies"
- "The Last Ones"
- "Eccentrics"
- "The Reception"
- "Vassa Zheleznova" (first version)
- "Counterfeit Coin"
- "The Zykovs"
- "The Old Man"
- "Egor Bulychev and the Others"
- "Dostigaev and the Others"' "Vassa Zheleznova" (second version)
- "Workaholic Slovotekov"
- "Somov and the Others"
- "Iakov Bogomolov". Part 3 Non-dramatic writing.
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