7MEYERHOLD AND STANISLAVSKYForty Years of Cordial Disagreement
Questioning the relations between Stanislavsky (1863–1938) and Meyerhold (1874–1940), these two tutelary figures of the Russian and Soviet theatre of the twentieth century, was and remains a temptation made all the stronger as the two artists alternated collaborations, breaks, and polemics to officially reconcile in 1938. Stanislavsky died of illness that summer. Meyerhold was arrested in June 1939, tortured and shot in February 1940. Robert Leach’s book Stanislavsky and Meyerhold (2003), the works of Rose Whyman (2008), among others, and several articles of Soviet critics, mainly in the 50s and 70s, are traces of this ...
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