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- Stage adaptations of «Taras Bulba» in the 2nd half of the 19th – the early 20th century
- Golodniak O.V. Stage adaptations of “Taras Bulba” in the 2nd half of the 19th – the early 20th century. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2025, vol. 31, no 4, pp. 126–132. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2025-31-4-126-132
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2025-31-4-126-132
- УДК: 821.161.1.09”19”
- EDN: PRQZQJ
- Publish date: 2025-09-03
- Annotation: The article is devoted to dramatic adaptations of Nikolai Gogol’s story “Taras Bulba” that appeared in the 2nd half of the 19th to the early 20th century. The author focuses on those that were staged. The purpose of the work is to find out how popular the stage adaptations of this work were, what features they had and what determined the nature of the interpretations of “Taras Bulba”. Of the numerous dramatisations of the story created in the period under review (mainly in the last quarter of the 19th century), only a few had a fairly long stage life. These include the drama by K.D. Efimovich and N.I. Kulikov, the first version of which appeared during Gogol’s lifetime, but was banned by the censor, and two “dramatic performances” by A.Ya. Alekseev-Yakovlev, as well as plays by K.I. Vanchenko (Pisanetsky) and A.F. Shatkovsky in the Ukraine language. The theatrical fate of most other adaptations of “Taras Bulba” is unknown. At the same time, in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, dramatic adaptations of the story were popular on the Russian stage and numerous troupes included them in the repertoire, as those adaptations proved to be spectacular and corresponding to the melodramatic nature of productions aimed at a wide range of admirers. It was these features that the authors of the stage adaptations of “Taras Bulba” paid attention to.
- Keywords: Nikolai Gogol, “Taras Bulba”, stage history, dramatic adaptation, staging, theater, K.D. Efimovich, N.I. Kulikov, A.Ya. Alekseev.
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