Ostrovsky: Plays Two: The Forest; Artistes & Admirers; Wolves & Sheep; Sin & Sorrow; The Power of Darkness

by Alexander Ostrovsky

Stephen Mulrine (Translator)

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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.
  • ISBN10 1840021985
  • ISBN13 9781840021981
  • Publish Date 1 September 2003
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 370
  • Language English