1st Edition

Russian Theater From the Empire to the Soviets

By Marc Slonim Copyright 1963
376 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

Russian Theater (1963) is a comprehensive study of the main trends in Russian theatre in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with its origins in pagan folklore and ritual, it goes on to consider the romantic drama which flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century, the realistic drama of Gogol, Turgenev and their contemporaries, and the beginning of the modernist... Read more

1. The Origins of the Russian Theatre  2. From Romantic Drama to Gogol  3. The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century  4. The Beginnings of the Moscow Art Theatre  5. The Evolution of the Moscow Art Theatre  6. From ‘The World of Art’ to Meyerhold  7. Great Directors  8. The First Years of the Revolution  9. From Innovators to Conservatives  10. Two Decades of Socialist Realism

Biography

Marc Slonim