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Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Russian theatre in world theatre Robert Leach
- Russian theatre in Russian culture Victor Borovsky
- 1. The origins of the Russian theatre Catriona Kelly
- 2. The organisation of the Russian theatre, 1645-1763 Victor Borovsky
- 3. The emergence of the Russian theatre, 1763-1800 Victor Borovsky
- 4. Writers and repertoires, 1800-1850 A. D. P. Briggs
- 5. Actors and acting, 1820-1850 Anatoly Altschuller
- 6. Popular, provincial and amateur theatres, 1820-1900 Catriona Kelly
- 7. Realism in the Russian theatre, 1850-1882 Cynthia Marsh
- 8. Aleksandr Ostrovsky - dramatist and director Kate Sealey Rahman
- 9. The Russian Imperial Ballet Andy Adamson
- 10. Russian opera John Warrack
- 11. Imperial and private theatres, 1882-1905 Arkady Ostrovsky
- 12. Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre, 1898-1938 Jean Benedetti
- 13. The Silver Age, 1905-1917 Spencer Golub
- 14. Revolutionary theatre, 1917-1930 Robert Leach
- 15. The Theatre and Socialist Realism, 1929-1953 Inna Solovyova
- 16. The 'thaw' and after, 1953-1986 Birgit Beumers
- 17. Russian theatre in the post-communist era Anatoly Smeliansky
- 18. Russian theatre and Western theatres Robert Leach
- Select bibliography
- Index.