Užgavėnės: from carnivals in the manors of the noblemen of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the winter escort holidays in the Soviet period

Presented is the monograph by Lina Laurinavičiūtė- Petrošienė, “Genre transformation: Samogitia’s Užgavėnės songs”. The book’s author has also prepared a collection of folklore that is performed in Samogitia during Užgavėnės, “Samogitian calendar folklore. Užgavėnės songs” (2010). This monograph discusses theatrical events and Užgavėnės in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s noble manors in the 16th−18th c.; the Jesuit school theatre’s Užgavėnės plays in the 16th−18th c.; Užgavėnės, or the “escorting of winter” holiday in the Soviet period and the relationship of all these holidays, carnivals, revelry with the traditional Užgavėnės, celebrated in the countryside in the 19th−20th c