Akimov and Shostakovich’s Hamlet: a Soviet ‘Shakesperiment’

When in 1932 the young theatre artist Nikolay Akimov made his directing debut with Hamlet, nobody expected to witness one of the biggest scandals of Russian/Soviet theatrical history. Akimov’s production for the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow had every element of the famously controversial style of Vs...

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Main Author:	Assay, Michelle
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	Société Française Shakespeare 2015
Subjects:	Hamlet music Akimov Nikolai incidental music Meyerhold Vsevolod Russian translations Shakespeare in the Soviet Union Shostakovich Dmitri Soviet theatre musique Akimov Nikolaï Chostakovitch Dimitri Shakespeare en russe Shakespeare en Union Soviétique théâtre soviétique
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.4000/shakespeare.3329 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/kote https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/3329
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