Russias Theatrical Past

Author : Claudia R. Jensen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253056357
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Theatrical Past written by Claudia R. Jensen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 17th century, only Moscow's elite had access to the magical, vibrant world of the theater. In Russia's Theatrical Past, Claudia Jensen, Ingrid Maier, Stepan Shamin, and Daniel C. Waugh mine Russian and Western archival sources to document the history of these productions as they developed at the court of the Russian tsar. Using such sources as European newspapers, diplomats' reports, foreign travel accounts, witness accounts, and payment records, they also uncover unique aspects of local culture and politics of the time. Focusing on Northern European theatrical traditions, the authors explore the concept of intertheater, which describes transmissions between performing traditions, and reveal how the Muscovite court's interest in theater and other musical entertainment was strongly influenced by diplomatic contacts. Russia's Theatrical Past, made possible by an international research collaborative, offers fresh insight into how and why Russians went to such great efforts to rapidly develop court theater in the 17th century.

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521432207
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Russian Theatre written by Robert Leach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of Russian theatre, written by an international team of experts.

Author : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442249277
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre written by Laurence Senelick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on individual actors, directors, designers, entrepreneurs, plays, playhouses and institutions, Censorship, Children’s Theater, Émigré Theater, and Shakespeare in Russia. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Theatre.

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Russian Theatre written by Robert Leach and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Gregor
Publisher : New York : B. Blom
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Theatre written by Joseph Gregor and published by New York : B. Blom. This book was released on 1968 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : V. Hohman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119905
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933 written by V. Hohman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century.

Author : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300194765
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Theater written by Laurence Senelick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital, living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language.

Author : Anatoly Smeliansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587945
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Theatre After Stalin written by Anatoly Smeliansky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the world of the theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material, some published here for the first time, to tell a fascinating and important story. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theatre, and moves through the next four decades, highlighting the social and political events which shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners, including Yury Lyubimov, Oleg Yefremov, and Lev Dodin, among others, and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations.

Author : E. Anthony Swift
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520225945
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia written by E. Anthony Swift and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the fullest and most richly detailed study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift brings alive the world of Ostrovsky, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as he examines the origins and significance of the new 'people's theaters' that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His extensively researched study, full of anecdotes from the theater world of the day, shows how these people's theaters became a major arena in which the cultural contests of late imperial Russia were played out and how they contributed to the emergence of an urban consumer culture during this period of rapid social and political change."--Cover leaf.

Author : Murray Frame
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608059
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters written by Murray Frame and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian court from the eighteenth century until the collapse of the tsarist order in 1917. This close association raises many questions about the uses of these theaters and where their loyalties lay in early twentieth century Russia. This history begins in 1900 with the theater flourishing but undergoing change, then chronicles the impact of war and revolution, as well as audience and administration, leading up to the effective re-establishment of state control over the theaters by the Bolsheviks in 1920. While the theaters were often allied with the forces of change, their grandeur harked back to the age of the tsars, creating an irony that is explored here in depth. Photographs and diagrams of the theaters are included, along with photographs of the central historical figures, and contemporary cartoons referring to the theaters.