Catherine the Great Comedies available

[Lurana OMalley]

Please excuse cross-posting of this information to several lists.

I am pleased to remind you of the publication of the following edition,
and hope you will consider these plays for fall course adoptions, for
purchase by your libraries, and for your own reading and research.

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TWO COMEDIES BY CATHERINE THE GREAT, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman

Translated and edited by Lurana Donnels O'Malley, Associate Professor of
Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaii, USA

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. Sanctimonious, 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 of three plays usually
known as Catherine's "anti-masonic" trilogy, written as a warning against
the growing influence of the freemasons.

In a comprehensive introduction, Lurana Donnels O'Malley relates the plays
to Catherine's status and philosophy.

Readership: Theatre professionals, academics, historians and scholars,
particularly those with a keen interest in Russian Studies.

1998
111pp, 1 colour illustration
Paperback ISBN: 90-5755-023-7
US$22.50 / 15 / ECU19

Cloth ISBN 90-5755-022-9
US$45 / 30 / ECU37


Russian Theatre Archive, Volume 15
Harwood Academic Publishers
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to contact the author:


Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Associate Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance
1770 East-West Road
University of Hawai'i
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
Tel. 808-956-9609
Fax  808-956-4234
omalley at hawaii.edu
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~omalley/