Research Guides: Theatre Appreciation (43-101): Russian

Russian theatre (1800-1900)

Western theatre: Revolution and revival by Patti P. Gillespie
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Part 4 Chapter 15 Realism and the Realistic Theatre, 1850-Present
- Moscow Art Theatre (1897-present)
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 11 The Nineteenth Century/Nineteenth Century in Russia
- Nineteenth Century Russia Drama/Alexander Ostrovsky/Maxim Gorky/Anton Chekov (Representative plays and playwrights)
- Theatre and Politics (Theater and Society)
- Acting (Actors and Acting)
- Chapter 13 The Twentieth Century/The Twentieth Century in Germany, Northern Europe, and Russia
- Twentieth Century Russian Drama (Representative plays and playwrights)
- The Director Konstantin Stanislask/Vsevolod Meyerhold/Tairov (Directing)
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- More copies of edition
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and dramatists of the time
- Chapter 12/Continental European Theatre in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Russian Drama and Theatre to the 1850s (Representative Plays, Playwrights, Actors, Acting)
- Chapter 15 Continental European and Latin American Theatre in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Russian Theatre to 1900 – Ostrovsky, Turgenev, Gogol, Tolstoy (Representative Plays, Playwrights)
- Theatrical Conditions in Russia to 1900 (Directors, Scene Design, Scene Painting, Costumes, Actors, Acting)
- Chapter 18 Continental European and Latin American Theatre in the Early Twentieth Century
- Theatre and Drama in Russia 1917-1940
- Chapter 20 Continental European and Latin American Theatre in the Mid Twentieth Century
- Soviet Theatre and Drama 1940-1968
- Chapter 22 Continental European and Latin American Theatre in the late Twentieth Century
- Soviet Theatre to 1990
- Chapter 24 Contemporary Theatre
- Theatre in Russia
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett
Call Number: NWO Resv Theat B021
Publication Date: 1968
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Chapter 13 The Theatre in Germany and Russia in the 19th Century p. 400
- 19th Century Russian theatre (Actors, Stage design, Representative plays and dramatists)

Encyclopedia of Russian History, 2004.
Call Number: http://ezproxy.nwmissouri.edu:2048/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3404101368/GVRL?u=nwmosu_owens&sid=GVRL&xid=144b0524
ISBN: 9780028659077
Article on the modern history of Russian theater.
Popular theater and society in Tsarist Russia
ISBN: 9780520925878
The Moscow Art Theatre

Russia 1800-1900: Subjects

Library catalog subject search:

Russian culture and society (theater and society):

Russian Theater – Cultural/Social Conditions
Owens Library/MOBIUS Catalog Keyword Search
- s:Theater and society and s:russia and s:history

Influence of Russian theatre on comtemporary theatre & society:

How Russia Shaped the Modern World: from art to anti-semitism, ballet to Bolshevism by Steven G. Marks

Links to the full-text of scripts for Russian 1800-1900 play scripts
Reading list for theatre majors

Full Text of Russian 1800-1900 play scripts from Drama Online:

The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol translated by Stephen Mulrine
ISBN: 9781854591746
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov translated by David Hare
ISBN: 9780571313020

NIKOLAI GOGOL
ISBN: 9780787640866
ANTON CHEKHOV
ISBN: 9780787640866

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