Shevchenko, Taras | Valerian Revutsky (essay date 1962)
Valerian Revutsky (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "Ševčenko and the Theatre," in Taras Ševčenko, 1814-1861: A Symposium, edited by Volodymyr Mijakovs'kyj and George Y. Shevelov, Mouton & Co., 1962, pp. 136-52.
[In the following essay, Revutsky discusses Ševčenko's experiences with the opera, his acquaintances in the theater, his drama criticism, and the influence of these experiences on his dramatic writings.]
This subject has been frequently discussed. Almost a century after the birth of the poet V. Bocjanovs'kyj wrote a study "Ševčenko and the Ukrainian Theatre" (1912); in 1925 Petro Rulin devoted an article to this topic; in the symposium entitled Ševčenko ta joho doba he also gave a detailed analysis of Ševčenko's dramatic criticism. The problem of the relations between Ševčenko and the prominent Russian actor M. Šč epkin has been analyzed by a number of students such as N. Storoženko, A. Jarcev, M. Moč ul's'kyj, V....
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