Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia: Volume 44

by E. Anthony Swift

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520225945
• ISBN13: 9780520225947
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"