Author: Alexander Ostrovsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783192860
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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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:
ISBN: 9780898759358
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Plays by Alexander Ostrovsky: A Protegee of the Mistress Poverty is No Crime Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All It's a Family Affair - We'll Settle It Ourselves. Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) was an early Russian Realist whose work led to the founding of the Moscow Arts Theatre and to the career of Stanislavsky. He has been acknowledged to be the greatest of the Russian dramatists. The Storm is the most poetical of his works.
Author: Alexander Ostrovsky
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Three comedies and a tragedy by one of Russia's greatest playwrights.
Author: Alexander Ostrovsky
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468309285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Contemporary of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and precursor to Chekhov, he was a keen sociological observer, often exposing abuses of power, landing him in trouble with the censors again and again. He wrote 47 original plays and began the tradition of acting today associated with Stanislavsky. Ostrovsky’s plays were written with performance in mind and with a masterful use of colloquial language. To this day they are a much-performed part of the Russian repertory. Â This volume collects four of Ostrovsky’s key plays, each from a different decade—A Profitable Position, An Ardent Heart, Without a Dowry, and Talents and Admirers, and is rounded out by the translator’s introduction, an afterword for each play, an extensive bibliography, and complete list of Ostrovsky’s works.
Author: George Rapall Noyes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Author: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The following book is a collection of plays written by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. Some of his most famous works are featured here, including 'It's a Family Affair-We'll Settle It Ourselves' and 'A Protégée of the Mistress'.
Author: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky
Publisher: Ardis Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky
Publisher: New York : Pegasus
ISBN:
Category : Russian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Arkady Ostrovsky
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399564187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR “Fast-paced and excellently written…much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable.” —New York Times “Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis.” –The Wall Street Journal The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize, The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of Russia's stealthy and largely unchronicled counter revolution. A highly regarded Moscow correspondent for the Economist, Arkady Ostrovsky comes to this story both as a participant and a foreign correspondent. His knowledge of many of the key players allows him to explain the phenomenon of Valdimir Putin - his rise and astonishing longevity, his use of hybrid warfare and the alarming crescendo of his military interventions. One of Putin's first acts was to reverse Gorbachev's decision to end media censorship and Ostrovsky argues that the Russian media has done more to shape the fate of the country than its politicians. Putin pioneered a new form of demagogic populism --oblivious to facts and aggressively nationalistic - that has now been embraced by Donald Trump.
Author: Elena Penskaya
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110622033
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.
