Plays

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, one of nineteenth-century Russia's most highly regarded playwrights. He wrote and coauthored about fifty plays and translated foreign plays into Russian. Most of his works deal with the merchant or petty-official classes and the conflicts within their patriarchal families. This volume includes four plays: A Protégée of the Mistress; Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All; “It's a Family Affair - We'll Settle It Ourselves”, the first published work of the aut