Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia
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2002
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-22594-7 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-22594-7 (ISBN)
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This study looks at the popular theatre that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift 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.
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 "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. 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.
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 "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. 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.
E. Anthony Swift is a Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Essex.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.2.2003 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies on the History of Society and Culture ; 44 |
| Zusatzinfo | 16 b-w photographs |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 726 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-22594-5 / 0520225945 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-22594-7 / 9780520225947 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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