This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays
The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol)
Marriage is a comedy about the business...
This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays
The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as...
A native Muscovite, Ostrovsky became Russia's most prolific painter of Mercantile Society and the common people, writing over fifty plays, mostly comedies. Includes: The Forest, Artistes and Admirers, Wolves and Sheep, Sin and Sorrow, and The Power Darkness.
A native Muscovite, Ostrovsky became Russia's most prolific painter of Mercantile Society and the common people, writing over fifty plays, mostly c...
Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmos...