To Kill a Serpent in the Shell - Paperback
by Boris Akunin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Boris Akunin, Ileana Alexandra Orlich (Translator)Publish date:2018-02-27Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628973204ISBN-10:162897320XUPC:9781628973204Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:European, Russian & SovietSize:6.80 x 4.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCAW6JZP12
To Kill a Serpent in the Shell
To Kill a Serpent in the Shell dramatizes the final year of Tsarevna Sofia's regency, interrogating Russia's history while subtly confronting the Russia of today. The play, both a riddle and a fantasy, depicts the political rivalry between the regent and her lover, Vasili Golitsyn, on the one hand, and the young Tsar Peter on the other.
The regency's incipient humanism, espoused in Golitsyn's...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628973204ISBN-10:162897320XUPC:9781628973204Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:European, Russian & SovietSize:6.80 x 4.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCAW6JZP12
Orlich, Ileana Alexandra: - Ileana Alexandra Orlich is President's Professor of Comparative Literature and Romanian Studies at Arizona State University. Her publications examine the societies and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. She is also a translator of fiction and drama. Her translations of plays have been staged in New York and Bucharest.Akunin, Boris: - Boris Akunin (pen-name of...
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