Good News to Maria

The publication includes two editions of one of the most famous plays of the Great French Poet and the playwright of the Claudel Fields" Good Mare. Comparison of the early editorial board (1912), the developing themes and the images of the play "Young Violin Violin", and the so-called final edition for the scene (1948) allows you to trace the evolution of Claudel"s creativity in almost half a century. The play, which the playwright itself called the "Mystery", occupies a special place in the history of the theater not only because of its spiritual and emotional saturation, but also because of that interest, which has shown such outstanding directors as O. Lune-software V. Dorn, A. Tairov, V. Meyerhold.
The publication is accompanied by comments and an article in which the history of the creation of the play and its fate in France and in Russia, and also analyzes the basic principles of the worldview and style of Cloodel