Description
Includes the plays The Forest, Artistes and Admirers, Wolves and Sheep and Sin and Sorrow
Four of Ostrovsky's finest plays. The best known of these, The Forest (1871), has two young lovers in thrall to their tyrannical elders, who are prevented from marrying until a pair of strolling actors come to their rescue. In Artistes and Admirers (1881), a comedy of theatre life, a dedicated young actress renounces both love and fortune in order to pursue her sacred calling. In the comedy Wolves and Sheep (1875) Ostrovsky returns to a favourite theme, the double-dealing and hypocrisy of the Russian landowning classes, while the melodrama Sin and Sorrow (1863) explores the tragic consequences of a bored provincial wife's brief affair.Author: Alexander Ostrovsky
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 370
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781840021981
ISBN10: 1840021985
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Stephen Mulrine is a Glasgow-born poet and playwright who has written extensively for radio and television, and published many translations.