Theatre and identity in imperial Russia
By: by Catherine A. Schuler.
Series: Studies in theatre history and culture
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781587297991
Subjects: Theater -- Russia -- 19th century -- History; National characteristics, Russian -- History; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917
Description: ''Study of relationship between modernization and identity in Russian theatre 1801-1881"--Publisher's summary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: National crises, national consciousness, national theatre : the culture wars; title: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shakhovskoi and the rise of the Teatral; title: Friction in the fatherland : actors and the intelligentsia in the interwar era; title: A suffering nation : performing narodnost' in the era of the Great Reforms.