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Ostrovsky: Plays Two: The Forest; Artistes & Admirers; Wolves & Sheep; Sin & Sorrow; The Power of Darkness (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Aleksandr Ostrovsky

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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 , 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 , 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 Ostrovsky returns to a favourite theme, the double-dealing and hypocrisy of the Russian landowning classes, while the melodrama Sin and Sorrow explores the tragic consequences of a bored provincial wife’s brief affair.

Language: English

Pages: 370

Format: Paperback

Release: September 01, 2003

ISBN 13: 9781840021981

Ostrovsky: Plays Two: The Forest; Artistes & Admirers; Wolves & Sheep; Sin & Sorrow; The Power of Darkness (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Aleksandr Ostrovsky

0/5 ( ratings)

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 , 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 , 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 Ostrovsky returns to a favourite theme, the double-dealing and hypocrisy of the Russian landowning classes, while the melodrama Sin and Sorrow explores the tragic consequences of a bored provincial wife’s brief affair.

Language: English

Pages: 370

Format: Paperback

Release: September 01, 2003

ISBN 13: 9781840021981

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