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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Claudia R. Jensen , Ingrid Maier , Stepan Shamin , Daniel C. WaughPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780253056344ISBN 10: 0253056349 Pages: 316 Publication Date: 01 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments A Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Comedians Come to Pskov 1. Court Music at Home and Abroad 2. The Theater of Diplomacy 3. Introducing Pickleherring: The Origins of the Russian Court Theater 4. The Plays and ""Ballets"" for the Tsar 5. The Play of Tamerlane 6. From Tamerlane to Tamerlane and Beyond Bibliography Index"ReviewsThe eccentric characters, amusing anecdotes, and pointed insights draw the reader in, making this an appetizing work.--Valerie Kivelson, author of Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia Fascinating and entertaining, Russia's Theatrical Past takes us backstage at Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's new court theater in the 1670s, tracking how actors, musicians, and theatrical companies from Northern Europe joined in Moscow with other directors, musicians, and amateur actors (many from the 'German Suburb') and staged works from Biblical epics to Tamburlaine. With on-the-ground detail (sets, casts, salaries, scripts), the authors display the world of theater and performance in Muscovy as a dynamic interchange of Northern European, Ukrainian Orthodox, and Muscovite culture.--Nancy S. Kollmann, Stanford University Author Information"Claudia Jensen is Affiliate Instructor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington. She is author of Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia and editor (with Miloš Velimirović) of Nikolai Findeizen's History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, volumes 1 and 2. Ingrid Maier is Professor Emerita of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University. She has published several monographs on modern and historical Russian linguistics, Russian cultural history, and Russian translations of 17th-century newspapers, including editions of these translations (Vesti-Kuranty). Stepan Shamin is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is author (in Russian) of Foreign ""Pamphlets"" and ""Curiosities"" in Russia from the 16th to the Beginning of the 18th Centuries and Seventeenth-Century Kuranty. Daniel C. Waugh is Professor Emeritus of History, International Studies, and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington. He is author of The Great Turkes Defiance and (in Russian) of History of a Book: Viatka and ""Non-modernity"" in Russian Culture in the Era of Peter the Great." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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