The Bedbug (Masterplots II: Drama)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1920’s and the 1970’s
- Setting: Tambov, Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Ivan Prisypkin, Pierre Skripkin, Elzevir Renaissance, Rosalie Renaissance, Oleg Bard, Zoya Beryozkina, A Professor, A zoo director
- Genres: Satire, Drama
- Subjects: 1970’s, Class conflict, Communism or communists, Middle classes, Future, 1920’s, Individuality, Corruption, Soviet Union or Soviets, Relics or sacred objects
- Locales: Tambov, Soviet Union
The Play
The Bedbug begins outside a state-owned department store in a typical Russian city. Peddlers walk up and down the theater aisles hawking buttons, apples, balloons, underwear, and so on. Ivan Prisypkin enters, enthralled with the variety of merchandise for sale. Ivan is an ordinary worker, recently enfranchised by the 1917 Revolution. Anxious to possess goods, he buys ignorantly, comically mistaking brassieres for “aristocratic bonnets.” His future mother-in-law Rosalie tries to restrain his extravagance, but her neighbor Oleg assures her that workers are now...
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Vladimir Mayakovsky (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Vladimir Mayakovsky (Poetry)Vladimir Mayakovsky (Drama)Vladimir Mayakovsky (Dictionary of World Biography)Vladimir Mayakovsky (Censorship)
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