Synopsis
Ostrovsky Plays 2 - The Forest & Artistes and Admirers & Wolves and Sheep & Sin and Sorrow
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Alexander Ostrovsky trans Stephen Mulrine
Published by Oberon
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