Plays (English)
Ostrovsky
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Description
Merchant Moscow comes alive in the Plays of Alexander Ostrovsky, presented here in English. Tyrannical fathers, scheming traders, clever clerks, and suffering women fill his famous dark kingdom of the counting-house and the family firm. Ostrovsky dominated the Russian stage for half a century, writing the merchant class into literature almost single-handedly.
His dialogue catches the speech of the Zamoskvorechye district, proverb-rich and status-obsessed. Plots turn on dowries, debts, and marriages arranged like contracts, until feeling breaks the ledger open. These translations open his world to English readers who know Russian drama mainly through Chekhov. Ostrovsky is the foundation Chekhov built on. The plays still hold the stage in Russia season after season.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ostrovsky |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 429782 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |