TY - BOOK AU - Senelick,Laurence P. AU - Andreev,Leonid AU - Annensky,Innokenty AU - Belinsky,Vissarion AU - Bely,Andrey AU - Blok,Aleksandr AU - Bryusov,Valery AU - Chekhov,Anton AU - Evreinov,Nikolay AU - Gogol,Nikolay AU - Ivanov,Vyacheslav AU - Meyerhold,Vsevolod AU - Pushkin,Aleksandr AU - Sleptsov,Vasily AU - Sologub,Fyodor TI - Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists: An Anthology T2 - University of Texas Press Slavic Series SN - 9781477302972 U1 - 891.72/009 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - Dramatic criticism KW - Russia KW - Theater KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Sources KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists --; My Remarks on the Russian Theater --; On National-Popular Drama and the Play Martha the Seneschal's Wife --; Petersburg Notes for 1836 --; A Theater Lets Out after the Performance of a New Comedy --; Dramatic Poesy --; A Type of the Current Drama --; More about Sarah Bernhardt --; The Cherry Orchard --; Drama at the Lower Depths --; On Drama --; The Theater of a Single Will --; Theater and Modern Drama --; Realism and Convention on the Stage --; Introduction to Monodrama --; Russian Dramatists --; The Essence of Tragedy --; Letters on the Theater --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Although younger than most European theatrical traditions, the Russian professional theater has generated an exciting body of criticism and theory which until recently has remained unknown or nearly inaccessible in the West. This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics of drama and the theater from 1828 to 1914. The focus of these essays, most published here for the first time in English, is on the so-called Crisis in the Theater of 1904 to 1914, a lively debate between the symbolists and the naturalists that evoked brilliant polemic writing from Meyerhold, Bely, Bryusov, and others. Along with Chekhov's amusing critique of Sarah Bernhardt ("monstrously facile!") and Ivanov's abstruse analysis of the essence of tragedy, the essays form a running commentary on the development of the Russian theater: Pushkin on his predecessors, Gogol on his own work, Belinsky on Gogol, Sleptsov on Ostrovsky and Leskov, Bely on Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ("enervated people, trying to forget the terror of life"), the symbolists on one another. Each selection is printed in its entirety, with extensive notes, and a lengthy introduction places all the pieces within their historical and cultural contexts to comprise a brief history of Russian dramatic theory before the revolution. This volume is essential reading for all who wish to extend their knowledge of the Russian contribution to theatrical history, theory, and criticism UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/770256 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477302972 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477302972/original ER -