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Meyerhold and Evreinov: ‘Originals’ at Each Other's Expense
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2009
Abstract
Our occasional series of original theatre documents continues with this translation, the first in English, of an article written in 1915 by the Russian director Nikolai Evreinov attacking his contemporary and erstwhile colleague Vsevolod Meyerhold for artistic plagiarism – an attack which, of course, reveals as much about the susceptibilities and private jealousies of its perpetrator as it does about its object. Tony Pearson, who currently teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies in the University of Glasgow, accompanies his translation with a full introduction and commentary, setting the polemics within the context of the Russian and early Soviet theatre, and the subsequent, separate careers of the two personalities involved.
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1. See Golub, Spencer, Evreinov: the Theatre of Paradox and Transformation (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984), p. 137Google Scholar and p. 186–90.
2. Meyerhold, V. E., ‘Literaturnye predvestiya o novom teatre’ (‘The New Theatre Foreshadowed in Literature’), first published in Teatr: kniga o novom teatre (Theatre: a Book about the New Theatre, Petersburg, 1908)Google Scholar, trans. Braun, Edward, in Meyerhold on Theatre (London, 1969), p. 34Google Scholar.
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