Terror and Pity : Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia (Imperial Encounters in Russian History)

Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity offers an in-depth reading of early Russian tragedy as a political genre. Addressing half-forgotten texts and events, this study engages with literary and cultural theory from Walter Benjamin to Foucault and "new historicism".