The Silenced Theatre Czech Playwrights without a Stage【電子書籍】[ Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz ]

＜p＞Since the Soviet occupation of 1968 censorship has closed the curtain on free expression in Czechoslovakia. But plays continue to be circulated in typescript within the country, are regularly smuggled out for publication abroad, and continue to be produced without restriction in the West. This book is the first full-length study of Czechoslovak drama of the sixties and seventies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The author discusses the works of major playwrights, including V?clav Havel, Pavel Kohout, and Josef Topol; and the influence of the great Czech writers Kafka and Ha?ek as well as Western writers such as Beckett, Sartre, and Albee. Czech and Slovak playwrights have responded in a distinctive, courageous, and often very funny manner to a political situation perhaps best labelled 'absurd.' The author depicts movingly their portrait of the horror?and the unintended humour?of life in a rigidly bureaucratic society, a theme of universal interest.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Silenced Theatre is the only detailed study of t．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る