• Full name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov • Married to Nadezhda “Nadya ” Krupskaya


• Founder of Russian Communist Party; leader of faction called Bolsheviks, who worked to overthrow the Tsar


LENIN


• Returned to Russia in 1917 and led an armed takeover known as the October Revolution, which led to the creation of the Soviet Union


• Full name: Tristan Tzara (born Samuel Rosenstock) • Romanian freethinker and radical • Helped found artistic movement called Dada in Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire • Dadaism was purposefully chaotic, random, and shocking


TZARA


• Called “anti-art,” Dada mocked traditional artistic values, such as the idea that words in a poem should be carefully chosen


• Full name: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce • The Irishman’s early work included Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • Started The English Players, a theatre troupe, while in Zurich


• Ulysses, his retelling of Homer’s Odyssey set in Dublin on a single day,the 16th of June 1904, was published in 1922 and broke new ground with its use of stream-of-consciousness and interior monologue


JOYCE CARR • Ulysses is now regarded as a masterpiece; Henry Carr is mentioned in it, mockingly


• Full name: Henry Wilfred Carr • The Englishman enlisted in 1914 and was sent to France • Suffered a leg injury in battle, captured by Germans, and paroled to Switzerland


• Played Algernon in James Joyce’s English Players’ production of The Importance of Being Earnest


• Was offended by Joyce and sued for the cost of pants he purchased to wear in the play • Joyce countersued for the cost of tickets Carr sold; Joyce won


TRAVESTIES UPSTAGE GUIDE 7


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