The Critic as Puck
Jan Kott writes about the exchange between life and drama so artfully that it sometimes appears that history and literature have performed his critical tasks for him.
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Jan Kott writes about the exchange between life and drama so artfully that it sometimes appears that history and literature have performed his critical tasks for him.
A new compendium of early 20th-century clowns is just that, a compendium, sans analysis, criticism, or context.
Invaluable guides to board development, plus a survey of grant directories.
New volumes address a need for more English-language texts on an endlessly debated bit of Moscow Art Theatre history.
Alfred Jarry, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Judson Dance Theater, and more.
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Review of ‘Late-Blooming Flowers and Other Stories’ by Anton Chekhov; I.C. Chertok and Jean Gardner, trans., Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, NY, 252 pp, $8.95 paper, and ‘The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov,’ edited and with an introduction by Lillian Hellman; Sidonie K. Lederer, trans., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY. 331 pp, $22.50 cloth, $7.95 paper.
New tomes on administration, marketing, and other topics.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
The pleasures of both Stanley Kauffman’s ‘Theatre Criticisms’ and Bonnie Marranca’s ‘Theatre Writings.’