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The AgitProp and Circus Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

František Deák
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The best known of Mayakovsky's plays are Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Tragedy (1913), Mystery-Bouffe (the second version, 1921), The Bedbug (1928-29), and The Bathhouse (1930). These works appeared in 1968 in a book entitled The Complete Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky. However, between 1920 and 1930 Mayakovsky wrote several other dramatic texts. Among these are And What If?… May First Daydreams in a Bourgeois Armchair, A Small Play About Priests Who Do Not Understand What Is Meant by the Holiday, How Some People Spend Time Celebrating Holidays (all three of these playlets were written in 1920 for May Day), The Championship of the Universal Class Struggle (written in 1920 for the circus), Yesterday's Exploit (playlet, 1921), Radio October (1926), and Moscow Is Burning (written in 1930 for the circus).

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The Drama Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1: Russian Issue , March 1973 , pp. 47 - 52
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Copyright © 1973 The Drama Review

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* The Complete Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky was published by Washington Square Press, Inc.; translations by Guy Daniels.