Культурология. Горелова А.В - 49 стр.

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сонеты
период ученичества
примерно на рубеже веков
привнести новое в трагедию
черта характера
затрагивать (рассматривать) важные темы
подчиняться устаревшим правилам
чудовищная порочность
центр туризма
4. Topics for discussion.
1. A few facts that are known about Shakespeare’s life.
2. Shakespeare as a poet.
3. Shakespeare as a dramatist.
4. The four periods of his literary work.
5. Shakespeare’s innovations.
6. Shakespeare today.
4.3. Stanislavsky in Russia
Konstatin Stanislavsky stressed that his system was a basic vocabulary. In
fact, one of his books is called An Essential Vocabulary for the Stage. He also
insisted that, although it came from Russia, his system was applicable to all the
stages of the world. Time has shown he was right. Russian émigrés would teach
Stanislavsky System in New York and Hollywood, in London, in Paris, and in
Beijing.
When Stanislavsky died in 1938, he was seventy-five. He was born in
Russia under a Tsar, two years before the freeing of Russia's serfs. During his
lifetime his country passed through a period - under Lenin - of hope, justified or
not, that there would be freedom for all. In the last fifteen years of Stanislavsky's
life, Russia regressed to a Soviet Union under the rule of a latter-day Tsar,
Josef Stalin. Stalin studied Ivan Grozny for ways to subdue his own countrymen
(remember Repin's painting?).
In Stanislavsky's youth, his father was rich enough to build and equip an
amateur theater on their family estate; after the Revolution, the family property
was confiscated by the government. Despite his later success onstage,
Stanislavsky was desperately poor and hadn’t money enough for decent clothes
or his own son's tuberculosis treatments. The minister of culture appealed to
Lenin that Stanislavsky was down to his last pair of pants. Fortunately, Lenin
had seen and enjoyed Stanislavsky's performance, and the Soviet government
arranged for Stanislavsky to have a small house with two rooms to rehearse in.
Towards the end of his life Stanislavsky was a respected figure of culture
who had known other respected Russia figures of culture to be arrested, jailed, or
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