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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Alexandr Ostrovsky Information
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 Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Александр Николаевич Островский) (12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1823–14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1886) was a Russian playwright. Ostrovsky graduated from the First Moscow Gymnasium (1835...
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 Variety The Great Ostrovsky.
04/05/2004: 475 words, approx. 2 pages (PRINCE MUSIC THEATER; 450 SEATS; $48 TOP) PHILADELPHIA A Prince Music Theater presentation of a musical in two acts with book by Avery Corman, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Coleman and Corman. Directed by Douglas C. Wager, co-directed and choreographed by... summary from source:
Canadian Slavonic Papers Ostrovsky: Reality and Illusion
12/01/2000: 580 words, approx. 2 pages Kate Sealey Rahman. Ostrovsky: Reality and Illusion. Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, No. 30. Birmingham: Department of Russian, University of Birmingham, 1999. viii, 251 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. L18.00, paper. For Slavists, the nineteenth-century Russian playwright Aleksandr Ostrovsky indisputably belongs to the literary canon. However,...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by N. A. Dobrolyubov
10,325 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following excerpt from an analysis of Ostrovsky's plays first published in 1859, Dobrolyubov reviews contemporary critical responses and praises the playwright's psychological insight and realistic portrayal of nineteenth-century middle-class Russian society.
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Critical Essay by R. A. Peace
7,900 words, approx. 26 pages
In this essay, Peace closely examines the language of The Thunderstorm and concludes that the ambivalence of certain words mirrors the ambiguities of the society depicted in the play.
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Critical Essay by George Z. Patrick
5,495 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Patrick analyzes the long-standing debate over whether Ostrovsky's writings reveal him to be a "Slavophile," rejecting Western values in favor of traditional Russian culture, or a "Westerner," recognizing "a spiritual kinship and solidarity between Russia and Europe. "
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