Rape and Resistance in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Understanding Dmitri Shostakovich’s Katarina Lvovna as a Viable and Complex Character

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Rebecca Gray

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References

Clément, Catherine. Opera, or the Undoing of Women. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Emerson, Caryl. “Back to the Future: Shostakovich’s Revision of Leskov’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District.” Cambridge Opera Journal 1 (1989): 59-78.
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Greenberg, Robert. Great Masters: Shostakovich – his Life and Music. Great Courses. 2002. Lecture 1: “Let the Controversy Begin,” Lecture 3: “Lady Macbeth” Digital audiobook.

Leskov, Nikolai. “The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District.” In The Sentry, and Other Stories, translated by A. E. Chamot, 49-140. Wesport: Hyperion Press, 1922.

Morgan, James. “Shostakovich the Dramatist: The Nose and the Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.” In A Shostakovich Companion, edited by Michael Mishra, 313-340. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2008.

Shostakovich, Dmitri and Alexander Preis. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Translated by Edward Downes. New York: G Schirmer, 1983.

Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Sound Recordings

Shostakovich, Dimitri. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Christophe Ventris, and Vladimir Vaneev. East Sussex: Opus Arte, 2006. DVD.
———. Lady Macbeth of Mstensk. With Galina Vishnevskaya, Nicolai Gedda, and Dimiter Petkov. England: EMI Classics, 2002. Compact Disc.