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A Theatrical Novel is an unfinished novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Its existing version was written in 1936-37 then abandoned. The work is a renowned specimen of the roman à clef. In this book the author settles scores with the famous MAT (Moscow Art Theatre), including its acclaimed chief Konstantin Stanislavski and [[MethodActing Method acting system]].

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A ''A Theatrical Novel Novel'' is an unfinished novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Its existing version was written in 1936-37 then abandoned. The work is a renowned specimen of the roman à clef. In this book the author settles scores with the famous MAT (Moscow Art Theatre), including its acclaimed chief Konstantin Stanislavski and [[MethodActing Method acting system]].



{{Creator/Aeschylus}} - {{Theatre/Agamemnon}}\\
{{Creator/Sophocles}} - {{Theatre/Philoctetes}}\\
[[Creator/LopeDeVega Lope de Vega]] - Fenisa's Hook\\
[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare William Shakespeare]] - [[Theatre/KingLear King Lear]]\\
Friedrich Schiller - The Maid of Orleans\\
Alexander Ostrovsky - Not of this World\\
Sergei Maksudov - Black Snow
** Later Bulgakov revels in playing with this trope where [[PlayingWithATrope it is transformed into FamousFictionalFamousFictionalFamousFictional]]. The portrait gallery in the foyer of the Independent Theatre includes alternating pictures of the actual(and huge)classic figures like {{Creator/Moliere}}, Sarah Bernhardt, Griboedov plus {{UsefulNotes/Nero}} (placed here on the order of Ivan Vasilievich as a "great singer") as well as actors and empoyees of the Independent Theatre. Including Sevastianov, the Independent theatre's lighting designer and Plisov, the revolving stage manager of 40 years.

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{{Creator/Aeschylus}} - {{Theatre/Agamemnon}}\\
''{{Theatre/Agamemnon}}''\\
{{Creator/Sophocles}} - {{Theatre/Philoctetes}}\\
''{{Theatre/Philoctetes}}''\\
[[Creator/LopeDeVega Lope de Vega]] - Fenisa's Hook\\
''Fenisa's Hook''\\
[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare William Shakespeare]] - [[Theatre/KingLear ''[[Theatre/KingLear King Lear]]\\
Lear]]''\\
Friedrich Schiller - The ''The Maid of Orleans\\
Orleans''\\
Alexander Ostrovsky - Not ''Not of this World\\
World''\\
Sergei Maksudov - Black Snow
''Black Snow''
** Later Bulgakov revels in playing with this trope where [[PlayingWithATrope it is transformed into FamousFictionalFamousFictionalFamousFictional]]. The portrait gallery in the foyer of the Independent Theatre includes alternating pictures of the actual(and huge)classic actual (and huge) classic figures like {{Creator/Moliere}}, Sarah Bernhardt, Griboedov plus {{UsefulNotes/Nero}} (placed here on the order of Ivan Vasilievich as a "great singer") as well as actors and empoyees of the Independent Theatre. Including Sevastianov, the Independent theatre's lighting designer and Plisov, the revolving stage manager of 40 years.



** Aloisy Rvatzky, the manager of the Rudolfi's magazine, has the same name as Aloisy Mogarych, a petty villain in The Master And Margarita.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The preface is written by the friend of Maksudov who reports that the author himself sent him A Theatrical Novel then committed suicide. The friend specifies that no such theatres as depicted in the novel actually exist in Moscow.

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** Aloisy Rvatzky, the manager of the Rudolfi's magazine, has the same name as Aloisy Mogarych, a petty villain in The ''The Master And Margarita.Margarita''.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The preface is written by the friend of Maksudov who reports that the author himself sent him A ''A Theatrical Novel Novel'' then committed suicide. The friend specifies that no such theatres as depicted in the novel actually exist in Moscow.

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