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Terror and Pity

Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia

Av Kirill Ospovat

Del i serien Imperial Encounters in Russian History

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Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia offers an in-depth reading of early Russian tragedy as a political genre. Imported to Russia by Aleksandr Sumarokov around 1750, tragedy reenacted and shaped the symbolic economy and the often disturbing historical experience of “absolutist” autocracy. Addressing half-forgotten texts and events, this study engages with literary and cultural theory from Walter Benjamin to Foucault and “new historicism” in order to contribute to a broader discussion of early modern “poetics of culture.”
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Kirill Ospovat received his PhD from the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU, Moscow) in 2005. He has held various postdoctoral appointments in Russia, Germany, the UK, and the US, most recently in the ERC-funded research group “Early modern drama and the cultural net” at the Freie Universität Berlin.

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“...this bowdlerized regularization of Shakespeare’s beloved play...elicits considerable scholarly interest. Ospovat’s reading of Gamlet through Machiavelli, Benjamin, and Schmitt transforms it into an astonishingly relevant depiction of the rise of charismatic tyranny during moments of political crisis (states of exception), perceived or real.”

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