Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age

Women in Russian Theatre is a fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. With unprecedented access to newly-opened files in Russia, Catherine Schuler brings to light the actresses who had an impact upon Russian modernist theatre.
Schuler brings to light the extradordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses who flourished on the stage between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age

Women in Russian Theatre is a fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. With unprecedented access to newly-opened files in Russia, Catherine Schuler brings to light the actresses who had an impact upon Russian modernist theatre.
Schuler brings to light the extradordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses who flourished on the stage between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age

Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age

by Catherine Schuler
Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age

Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age

by Catherine Schuler

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Women in Russian Theatre is a fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. With unprecedented access to newly-opened files in Russia, Catherine Schuler brings to light the actresses who had an impact upon Russian modernist theatre.
Schuler brings to light the extradordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses who flourished on the stage between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136155970
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/17/2013
Series: Gender in Performance
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Catherine A. Schuler is Associate Professor of Theatre History at the University of Maryland. She is co-editor of Theatre and Feminist Aesthetics and has published widely in the areas of Russian theatre and feminist performance.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Apogee of the Actress; Chapter 2 The Nina Zarechnaia Epidemic; Chapter 3 Mariia Savina; Chapter 4 An Uneasy Alliance; Chapter 5 Narodnichestvo, Nationalism, and Neurasthenia; Chapter 6 Enter the Actress-Entrepreneur; Chapter 7 Lidia Iavorskaia; Chapter 8 Little Girl Lost;
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