Actors cross the Volga : a study of the 19th century Russian theatre and of Soviet theatres in war

First published in 1946. In this study of Russian theatre, the author explores the developments of drama and the theatre throughout the nineteenth-century.

Macleod examines imperial and serf theatres, the impact of Russian drama on the east and west, and the regeneration of theatre at the start of the twentieth-century.

This title will be of great interest to students of Theatre Studies and Russian History.