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Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) (1493 words) |
 | LEXANDER OSTROVSKY is the great Russian dramatist of the central decades of the nineteenth century, of the years when the realistic school was all-powerful in Russian literature, of the period when Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy created a literature of prose fiction that has had no superior in the world's history. |
| The plays of Ostrovsky are of varied character, including dramatic chronicles based on early Russian history, and a fairy drama, "Little Snowdrop." His real strength lay, however, in the drama of manners, giving realistic pictures of Russian life among the Russian city classes and the minor nobility. |
| Ostrovsky had now been affected by the Slavophile school of writers and thinkers, who found in the traditions of Russian society treasures of kindliness and love that they contrasted with the superficial glitter of Western civilization. |
| Russian Theatre Index (115 words) |
| Alexander Ostrovsky - A biography of the Russian dramatist and analysis of his works. |
| Alexander Ostrovsky: Monologues - An index of monologues by Ostrovsky. |
| Alexander Pushkin - A biography of the Russian dramatist. |
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