Vladimir Mayakovsky,Guy Daniels
One of Russia's greatest poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant-garde. Despite his revolutionary youth, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet society, and three of his plays--all banned until after Stalin's death--reflect his changing assessments of the Revolution.,Mayakovsky: Plays ,includes ,Mystery Bouffe, ,a mock medieval mystery written in 1918 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution; ,The Bathhouse, ,a sharp attack on Soviet bureaucracy subtitled "a drama of circus and fireworks"; and ,The Bedbug,, in which a worker with bourgeois pretensions is frozen and resurrected fifty years later, when the world has become a material paradise. The collection also includes Mayakovsky's more personal first play, ,Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy.
Plays,Plays,Theatre,Cultural,Russia,Drama,Literature,Russian Literature
Mayakovsky: Plays