Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman
Catherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas, but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been available to an English- speaking readership. Oh, These Times (1772) is a satirical attack on many vices Catherine wished to root out from her society: religious hypocrisy, superstition and slander. The main character, Mrs. Pious, is a superficially religious old woman who resembles Moliere's Tartuffe. Catherine again sets her sights on superstition in The Siberian Shaman (1786), this time by satirizing shamanism as a deceitful profession which preys on the gullible. This play was part of a group…
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Weitere Autoren: O'Malley, Lurana Donnels
- ISBN: 978-1-134-42142-8
- EAN: 9781134421428
- Produktnummer: 33632001
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Plattform: PDF
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Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman
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