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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 40
IS  - 3
T2  - Shakespeare Bulletin
SP  - 365-83
ID  - bbbl2636
T1  - "'Cheerful, carefree, beautiful life': The Trouble with Staging A Midsummer Night's Dream in Early Soviet Theater"
AU  - Khomenko, Natalia
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.1353/shb.2022.0034
LA  - English
AB  - Challenges notion that early Soviet Russia regarded A Midsummer Night’s Dream as politically unobjectionable and unproblematic play. Considers early staging history of play in Soviet Russia from 1919 through 1920's to assess play's usefulness in building "proletarian theater" and investigates use of Shakespearean comedy in 1930's to provoke "humanist vision of an idyllic, egalitarian, and conflict-free future." Concludes with case study on 1941 production of Midsummer Night's Dream at the Central Red Army Theater in Moscow. English summary, online. 
ER  -