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. Hajevs'kyj, M. Josypenko, O...