Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia (eBook)

E. Anthony Swift (Autor)

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2002
364 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-92587-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "e;people's theaters"e; 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.Swift illuminates many aspects of the story of these popular theaters-the cultural politics and aesthetic ambitions of theater directors and actors, state censorship politics and their role in shaping the theatrical repertoire, and the theater as a vehicle for social and political reform. He looks at roots of the theaters, discusses specific theaters and performances, and explores in particular how popular audiences responded to the plays.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Introduction

Chapter One: The Urban Theatrical Landscape
Chapter Two: People’s Theater and Cultural Politics
Chapter Three: Censorship and Repertoire
Chapter Four: Theater, Temperance, and Popular Culture
Chapter Five: Workers’ Theater, Proletarian Culture, and Respectability
Chapter Six: The People at the Theater: Audience Reception
Conclusion

Epilogue
Appendix of Titles
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2002
• Reihe/Serie: Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: academic • Actors • Aesthetics • audience response • Censorship • Consumer Culture • Directors • Dissident • European History • factory workers • Imperial Russia • Moscow • peoples theater • Performance • performing arts • Political change • Political reform • Politics • popular culture • popular theater • Protest • Reform • resistance • Revolution • Russia • Russian culture • russian government • Russian History • Russian politics • Russian Revolution • Russian rulers • russian theater • russian tsar • scholarly • serfs • social change • St Petersburg • Study guide • Theater • theater critics • theaters • theatrical repertoire • Tsarist Russia • Working Class • World History
• ISBN-10: 0-520-92587-4 / 0520925874
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92587-8 / 9780520925878