Main entry:

Varneke, B. V. (Boris Vasilʹevich), 1874-1944.

Title & Author:

History of the Russian theatre, seventeenth through nineteenth century / original translation by Boris Brasol ; revised and edited by Belle Martin.

Publication:

New York : Macmillan, 1951.

Description:

xii, 459 pages ; 22 cm

Series:

[American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies. Russian Translation Project, series 8]

Notes:
Introduction: The folk roots of the Russian theatre -- Ecclesiastical drama.
The theatre of the seventeenth century: Church-school plays -- The theatre under Aleksey Mikhailovich.
The theatre of the eighteenth century: The theatre of the period of Peter the great -- The theatre during the time of Peter's successors -- The actors of the second half of the eighteenth century -- The rise of provincial theatre -- Theatrical customs of the eighteenth century -- The eighteenth century repertoire : Sumarokov and his tragedies ; The tragedies of Knyazhnin and Nikolev ; The comedies of Sumarokov and Knyazhnin ; Lukin and Plavilshchikov, the tearful comedy and the bourgeois drama ; Fonvizin and Kapnist -- Summary of the eighteenth century.
The theatre of the first half of the nineteenth century: The actors and the repertoire of the early part of the nineteenth century -- Tragedy in the early part of the nineteenth century -- Vaudeville -- Griboyedov -- Pushkin -- Lermontov ; The melodrama of Kukolnik and Polevoy -- Actors of the second quarter of the nineteenth century (1825-1855) -- Shchepkin -- Gogol.
The theater of the second half of the nineteenth century: Ostrovsky -- Actors of the second half of the nineteenth century -- Playwrights of the second half of the nineteenth century -- The provincial theatre.
"Translated under the Russian Translation Project of the American Council of Learned Societies."

Subject:

Theater Russia History.
Théâtre Russie Histoire.
Theater
Russia
Russland

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Brasol, Boris, 1885-1963, translator.
Martin, Belle, editor.
American Council of Learned Societies. Russian Translation Project.
American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies. Russian Translation Project, ser. 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 43575
Call No.: W16522; ID:89-B3314
Status: Available