Plays
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Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (1896–1958) was a talented playwright, writer, and screenwriter. This edition includes twelve of his wonderful plays with fairy-tale motifs, as well as memoirs about the playwright written by his friend Nikolay Korneevich Chukovsky. Schwartz’s plays are bright and dynamic and have a special charm. The modern artist Alexey Anatolyevich Shevchenko created vivid illustrations for them. Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (1896–1958) was a talented playwright, writer, and screenwriter. He was born into a family of a doctor and a midwife. His parents moved often, so the boy did not really remember his hometown, Kazan. Schwartz spent his childhood in Maikop, where he graduated from a real school, after which he entered the law faculty of Moscow University. The future writer did not manage to graduate: the Civil War broke out. During the battles, Schwartz suffered a severe concussion, the consequences of which affected him throughout his life. After the end of the war, Yevgeny Lvovich entered the University of Rostov-on-Don, where he became interested in the theater. At first, Schwartz acted in plays, and later, having moved to Petrograd, he tried writing. At first, texts for newspapers and children's magazines came out from under his pen. In 1929, Schwartz's play "Underwood" was first staged at the Leningrad Youth Theater. Yevgeny Lvovich continued to work hard and five years after the high-profile theater premiere, he was accepted into the Writers' Union of the USSR. Schwartz spent most of his creative career with the Comedy Theater, which was headed at that time by Nikolai Akimov. In 1940, the play "Shadow" was performed at this theater - a landmark work written by Schwartz on the initiative of Akimov. A year later, the writer was again caught in the terrible hardships of war, this time the Great Patriotic War. Schwartz remained in Leningrad, continuing to work in the theater until he was evacuated with his wife to Kirov. During this period, he wrote several anti-fascist plays, including "One Night" - a play about the siege of Leningrad. From Kirov, the playwright went to Stalinabad, where the rest of the Comedy Theater team settled after the evacuation. Here he wrote the play "The Dragon". According to Nikolai Chukovsky, it was the best of all that Schwartz had written. In the post-war years, the writer began writing screenplays for films. Many of his works, for example, "An Ordinary Miracle" were filmed after his death. Despite his difficult life, Schwartz always remained a kind-hearted, bright person. He categorically did not like bad endings, so in his works good always triumphed over evil. This collection includes his famous plays with fairy-tale motifs. In the preface to the publication, you can read the memoirs of Nikolai Chukovsky, who talks about the playwright himself and about Schwartz's work on his plays.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Library of World Literature