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Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia expertly integrates Russian theatre its players, playwrights, producers, and critics into the political and social history of nineteenth-century imperial Russia, tracing how the fascinating problem of being a Russian in Russia spread from the nation s westernized gentry to critically acclaimed or decried representations of Russianness onstage. Spotlighting the biographies and public images of the nineteenth-century stage s key performers, Schuler richly demonstrates how these stars were read and made by very differently oriented intellectual communities. Beth Holmgren, Duke University

This is an exciting book that will make an enormous contribution. It shows the Big Picture and supports its arguments well through a variety of primary and secondary sources. Successful in showing the connection between Russia's political and cultural shifts in the era and changes in theatre, particularly in the art of acting, Schuler has a lively and witty style. A natural storyteller, she paints a vivid picture of the antagonisms and personalities that shaped this period. I very much appreciate her willingness to examine the complex and contradictory aspects of this history. --Lurana Donnels O'Malley, professor of theatre, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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Catherine Schuler is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Maryland, College Park, and coeditor of Theatre Journal. She is the author of Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age, winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award, and coeditor of Theatre and Feminist Aesthetics.

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