Word: karamazovs
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Brothers Karamazov. The first Guild play of the season, Juarez and Maximilian, failed. Then followed Ned McCobb's Daughter, Pygmalion, The Silver Cord, all successes. Now comes The Brothers Karamazov, in five long acts. It, too, seems destined for success...
...Humble [from Crime and Punishment], The Constant Nymph), it is extracted from a novel. So different is the pithy compactness of the stage from the spread of the novel, that it is unfair to call these efforts "translations." They are more nearly "re-creations." Yet the play, The Brothers Karamazov, by Jacques Copeau and Jean Croue (translated into English by Rosalind Ivan) would be found to contain the full literary significance of Dostoievsky's novel, though wanting in dramatic fulfillment by reason of its uncrystalized theatrical version of those spiritual gropings which gave even Dostoievsky a bitter struggle...