Drama According to Alexander Bakshy, 1916-1946 : Academica Press : 9781680532760 : 1680532766 : 30 Nov 2021 : A Russian Jew who spent most of his life in England and America, Alexander Bakshy (1885-1949) was a theater critic and literary translator. He was also an innovative theorist who applied to theater the discourse of self-reflexive modernism, prizing anti-illusionist medium-awareness. Indeed, he was something of a pioneer in the area of ?spectatorship? and medium-awareness, going so far as to argue in favor of the modernist idea of overt presentationalism on stage as opposed to disingenuous representationalism. One can see this presentational, or anti-illusionist, argument at work in a number of pieces in Drama According to Alexander Bakshy, 1916-1946?an edited collection that also includes a lengthy contextualizing introduction and a comprehensive bibliography of this Russian émigré's writings.Alexander Bakshy's writings deserve to be better known, for his sound critical-theoret