Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia : Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman

著者名：O'Malley, Lurana Donnels

Routledge（2023/10/06発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9789057550225
• eISBN：9781134421497

Description

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 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Oh, These Times!, The Siberian Shaman