Robert Leach / Victor Borovsky

A History of Russian Theatre

Herausgeber: Borovsky, Victor; Leach, Robert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive history of Russian theatre in English. Written by an international team of experts, the book brings together the fruits of recent research into all areas of Russian theatre history. Of particular interest will be the chapters written by senior Russian academics, who not only reveal previously unpublished documentation but also offer new insights into their subjects. The History covers the whole range of Russian dramatic experience, from puppet theatre to ballet and grand opera, but its emphasis is on the practice of theatre, especially acting, and the final chapter puts Russian theatre into the wider context of Western performance and the stage. A key feature of the History is the collection of rare photographs, some published for the first time.

Table of contents:
Introduction Robert Leach; Introduction Victor Borovsky; 1. The origins of the Russian theatre: performances, rituals and entertainments from the earliest times to the early nineteenth century Catriona Kelly; 2. The organization of the Russian theatre 1600-1750 Victor Borovsky; 3. The emergence of the Russian theatre 1750-1800 Victor Borovsky; 4. Writers and repertoires 1800-50 A. P. D. Briggs; 5. Actors and acting, 1820-1850 Anatoly Altschuller; 6. Theatre on the margins: popular, provincial, and amateur theatres, 1820-1900 Catriona Kelly; 7. Realism in the Russian theatre, 1850-1882 Cynthia Marsh; 8. Aleksandr Ostrovsky - dramatist and director Inna Solovyova and Kate Sealey; 9. The Russian Imperial Ballet Andy Adamson; 10. Russian Opera John Warrack; 11. Imperial and Private theatre, 1882-1905 Arkady Ostrovsky; 12. Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre 1898-1938 Jean Benodetti; 13. The Silver age, 1905-1917 Spencer Golub; 14. Revolutionary theatre 1917-1930 Robert Leach; 15. An optimistic tragedy Lyubov Yarovaya; 16. The thaw and after, 1953-1986 Brigit Beumers; 17. The paradoxes of freedom Anatoly Smeliansky; 18. Russian theatre and Western theatres Robert Leach.

This is the first comprehensive history of Russian theatre in English. The History covers the whole range of Russian dramatic experience, from puppet theatre to ballet and grand opera. A key feature of the History is the collection of rare photographs, some published for the first time.

The first comprehensive history of Russian theatre in English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 899g
• ISBN-13: 9780521432207
• ISBN-10: 0521432200
• Artikelnr.: 21239429

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Russian theatre in world theatre Robert Leach
Russian theatre in Russian culture Victor Borovsky
1. The origins of the Russian theatre Catriona Kelly
2. The organisation of the Russian theatre, 1645-1763 Victor Borovsky
3. The emergence of the Russian theatre, 1763-1800 Victor Borovsky
4. Writers and repertoires, 1800-1850 A. D. P. Briggs
5. Actors and acting, 1820-1850 Anatoly Altschuller
6. Popular, provincial and amateur theatres, 1820-1900 Catriona Kelly
7. Realism in the Russian theatre, 1850-1882 Cynthia Marsh
8. Aleksandr Ostrovsky - dramatist and director Kate Sealey Rahman
9. The Russian Imperial Ballet Andy Adamson
10. Russian opera John Warrack
11. Imperial and private theatres, 1882-1905 Arkady Ostrovsky
12. Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre, 1898-1938 Jean Benedetti
13. The Silver Age, 1905-1917 Spencer Golub
14. Revolutionary theatre, 1917-1930 Robert Leach
15. The Theatre and Socialist Realism, 1929-1953 Inna Solovyova
16. The 'thaw' and after, 1953-1986 Birgit Beumers
17. Russian theatre in the post-communist era Anatoly Smeliansky
18. Russian theatre and Western theatres Robert Leach
Select bibliography
Index.