04764nam 2201129 a 450 991081460570332120240410063831.01-282-35646-197866123564690-520-92587-41-59734-823-610.1525/9780520925878(CKB)111087027177534(EBL)223702(OCoLC)475928822(SSID)ssj0000224503(PQKBManifestationID)11910941(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224503(PQKBWorkID)10210554(PQKB)11191618(MiAaPQ)EBC223702(OCoLC)52862196(MdBmJHUP)muse30535(DE-B1597)520950(OCoLC)1058867988(DE-B1597)9780520925878(Au-PeEL)EBL223702(CaPaEBR)ebr10051164(CaONFJC)MIL235646(EXLCZ)9911108702717753420010816d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrPopular theater and society in Tsarist Russia[electronic resource] /E. Anthony Swift1st ed.Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20021 online resource (367 p.)Studies on the history of society and culture ;44Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22594-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-326) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Note on Transliteration and Dates --Introduction --1. The Urban Theatrical Landscape --2. People's 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 --IndexThis 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 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. Swift illuminates many aspects of the story of these popular theaters-the cultural politics and aesthetic ambitions of theater directors and actors, state censorship politics and their role in shaping the theatrical repertoire, and the theater as a vehicle for social and political reform. He looks at roots of the theaters, discusses specific theaters and performances, and explores in particular how popular audiences responded to the plays.Studies on the history of society and culture ;44.TheaterRussiaHistoryPopular cultureRussiaactors.aesthetics.audience response.censorship.consumer culture.directors.dissident.factory workers.imperial russia.moscow.peoples theater.performance.performing arts.political change.political reform.politics.popular culture.popular theater.protest.reform.resistance.revolution.russia.russian culture.russian history.russian politics.russian revolution.russian theater.serfs.social change.st petersburg.theater critics.theater.theaters.theatrical repertoire.tsarist russia.working class.TheaterHistory.Popular culture792/.0947Swift Eugene Anthony1628037MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814605703321Popular theater and society in Tsarist Russia3964912UNINA