Description:
Bakhtin and Theatre will be the first book to explore the relation between Bakhtin's ideas and the theatre practice of his time. In that time, Stanislavsky co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and continued to develop his ideas about theatre until his death in 1938.
Review Quotes:
"At last, a landmark book that stitches Bakhtin unapologetically into the performing arts. Bakhtin loved novels best--but this spectacular study shows how keen and creative his thought can be when theatre is its site."
- Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, USA
"A lucid and stimulating book that does what Bakhtin himself failed to do: bring his theoretical positions into dialogue with the theatre practice of his contemporaries."
- Franc Chamberlain, University of Huddersfield, UK