In an article by James David Jacobs about Shakespeare and music he writes
"The Tempest stands at the crossroads of theatrical history: between the Renaissance and the Baroque, between the Elizabethan theatre of the imagination and the Jacobean spectacle, between the primacy of the word and the primacy of sensory entertainment".
Similarly The Fairground Booth was written and performed at the threshold of a new epoch in 1906 in Russia.
