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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Swift, Eugene Anthony. Popular theater and society in Tsarist Russia. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2002 (OCoLC)606934305 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eugene Anthony Swift |
| ISBN: | 0520225945 9780520225947 |
| OCLC Number: | 47803475 |
| Description: | xv, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- The urban theatrical landscape -- People's theater and cultural politics -- Censorship and repertoire -- Theater, temperance, and popular culture -- Workers' theater, proletarian culture, and respectability -- The people at the theater: audience reception -- Conclusion -- Epilogue. |
| Series Title: | Studies on the history of society and culture, 44. |
| Responsibility: | E. Anthony Swift. |
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Abstract:
"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."--From cover leaf.
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