Early Russian drama (17th – the first half of the 18th centuries).
Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1972. Vol. 1: The first plays of the Russian theater. Ed. prep. O.A. Derzhavina, A.S. Demin, K.K. Romodanovskaya, V.P. Grebenyuk; ed. by A.N. Robinson. 508 p. (In Russ.)
Abstract: The book is dedicated to the first plays of the Russian theater, which 300th anniversary was celebrated in October 1972. The book opened the series of Early Russian Drama, prepared by the Group for the Study of Old Russian Literature of the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. The edition contains the publication of texts of old dramas, their research and comments.
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Early Russian drama (17th – the first half of the 18th centuries).
Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1972. Vol. 2: Russian drama of the last quarter of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries. Ed. prep. O.A. Derzhavina, A.S. Demin, V.P. Grebenyuk; ed. by O.A. Derzhavina. 369 p. (In Russ.)
Abstract: The plays of the Russian court and school theaters of the 17th – the beginning of the 18th centuries, included in the collection, as well as the first plays of the theater of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich, mostly develop scenes borrowed from the Bible, the Gospel or life literature. This is quite natural. Despite the religious themes, Russian plays of this period are of great interest as a kind of processing of popular plots in the West, as well as their construction and stage features. The history of theatrical affair in Russia would be incomplete without taking into account and analyzing these plays and many details of its further development would remain incomprehensible to the reader.
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Early Russian drama (17th – the first half of the 18th centuries).
Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1974. Vol. 3: Plays of Moscow school theaters. Ed. prep. O.A. Derzhavina, A.S. Demin, A.S. Eleonskaya, V.D. Kuzmina, V.V. Kuskov; ed. by A.S. Demin. 583 p. (In Russ.)
Abstract: This book is the third in the series of Early Russian Drama and contains plays composed and staged in educational institutions in Moscow during the first half of the 18th century. Plays are arranged in chronological order, published and commented on according to the rules adopted in previous editions of Early Russian Drama.
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Early Russian drama (17th – the first half of the 18th centuries).
Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1975. Vol. 4: Plays of capital and provincial theaters of the first half of the 18th century. Ed. prep. O.A. Derzhavina, A.S. Demin, S.V. Kalacheva, E.V. Kolosov, V.D. Kuzmina, Z.T. Likhtman, L.P. Sidorov, ed. by A.S. Eleonskaya. 735 p. (In Russ.)
Abstract: The fourth book from the series of Early Russian Drama contains plays of the first half of the 18th century, which were performed on the stage of school and secular theaters both in Moscow and St. Petersburg and in the provinces, mainly in the 20–40s. Plays are arranged in chronological order, published and commented on according to the rules adopted in previous editions of Early Russian Drama.
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Early Russian drama (17th – the first half of the 18th centuries).
Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1976. Vol. 5: Plays of amateur theaters. Ed. prep V.P. Grebenyuk, O.A. Derzhavina, A.S. Demin, L.A. Itigina, V.D. Kuzmina, Z.T. Likhtman, E.K. Piotrovskaya, A.N. Robinson, L.I. Sazonova, ed. by A.N. Robinson. 735 p. (In Russ.)
Abstract: The book offered to readers’s attention is completed by a five-volume academic publication Early Russian Drama (17th – the first half of the 18th century), carried out by a group of Old Russian Literature of the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. The series Early Russian Drama (17th - first half of the 18th century) explores and summarizes the subject with the involvement of new sources, which, of course, does not close the possibilities for further studies. This book publishes and examines texts of school and democratic drama of the first half of the 18th century.
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