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Author Swift, Eugene Anthony

Title Popular theater and society in Tsarist Russia / E. Anthony Swift
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 346 pages)
Series Studies on the history of society and culture ; 44
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 44.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE URBAN THEATRICAL LANDSCAPE -- 2 PEOPLES THEATER AND CULTURAL POLITICS -- 3 CENSORSHIP AND REPERTOIRE -- 4 THEATER, TEMPERANCE, AND POPULAR CULTURE -- 5 WORKERS THEATER, PROLETARIAN CULTURE, AND RESPECTABILITY -- 6 THE PEOPLE AT THE THEATER: AUDIENCE RECEPTION -- CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE -- Appendix of Titles -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary 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. Peter
Analysis Electronic books
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-326) and index
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Subject Theater -- Russia -- History
Popular culture -- Russia
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Popular culture
Theater
Volkstheater
Massenkultur
Toneel.
Russia
Russland
Genre/Form History
Online-Publikation.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696495
ISBN 9780520925878
0520925874
0585466505
9780585466507
1597348236
9781597348232
1282356461
9781282356467
9786612356469
6612356464