چکیده (انگلیسی):

Barrie’s playlet The Truth about the Russian Dancers (written as a direct response to the impact upon British cultural
life of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes) has been hardly discussed in the literary scholarship dedicated to his writings. By
placing the playlet in the social and political context of the age, as well as focusing on close analysis of the textual
variants of the manuscript, the paper discusses Barrie’s exploration of the impressionistic notion of the unfamiliar and
the exotic. It is shown that as a searching piece of dramatic criticism, the work provides a penetrating reflection on
cultural dialogism produced within the framework of a modernist, rather than Edwardian platform, and thus puts into
new perspectivecertain aspects of the British perception of what was notoriously categorisedas the Russian myth.