Country House: Polish Theatre Archive

by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and D. Gerould

Book Overview

Country House, a ''comedy with corpses, '' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. Witkacy's send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world. When it was first performed in 1923 in Torun, Country House was judged unsuitable for the general public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9057020025
• ISBN13: 9789057020025
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"