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This volume contains four of Pixérécourt’s most important melodramas: The Ruins of Babylon, or Jafar and Zaida; The Dog of Montargis, or The Forest of Bondy;
Christopher Columbus, or the Discovery of the New World; and Alice, or The Scottish Gravediggers. Also included is Charles Nodier ’s introduction to the 1843 Collected Edition of Pixérécourt’s plays and two theoretical essays by the playwright, “Melodrama,” and “Final Reflections on Melodrama.”
Price: $20.00
Pages: 324
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Imprint: Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.
Publication Date:
01 May 2002
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780966615241
Format: Paperback
Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Executive Director, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center; editor, Slavic and East European Performance; editor, Routledge Harwood Polish and East European Theatre Archive; author of Witkacy, Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, and translations of Polish and Russian drama.