A Bitter Fate
A Bitter Fate (Russian: Горькая судьбина, Gorkaya sudbina), also translated as A Bitter Lot, is an 1859 realistic play by Aleksey Pisemsky.[1] The play tackles serfdom in Russia and the social and moral divisions that it creates by means of a story that focuses on a provincial ménage à trois.[1] With the exception of Leo Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness (1886), it is the only major play to dramatise the experiences of peasants in the history of Russian realistic drama.[2] It has been described as a masterpiece of the Russian theatre and the first Russian realistic tragedy.[3] The play is available in English translation in Masterpieces of the Russian Drama, Volume 1, edited by George Rapall Noyes, Dover Publications, 1961.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Banham (1998, 861) and Moser (1992, 273).
- ↑ Moser (1992, 274).
- ↑ Banham (1998, 861) and Eriksen, MacLeod, and Wisneski (1960, 471).
Sources
- Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN 0-521-43437-8.
- Eriksen, Gordon, Garrard MacLeod, and Martin Wisneski, ed. 1960. Encyclopædia Britannica 15th Edition. Volume 9.
- Moser, Charles A., ed. 1992. The Cambridge History of Russian Literature. Rev. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN 0-521-42567-0.
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| Plays |
- The Hypochondriac (1852)
- The Allotment (1852)
- A Bitter Fate (1859)
- Lieutenant Gladkov (1864)
- The Warriors and Those Who Wait (1864)
- Men Above the Law (1868)
- Predators (1872)
- Baal (1873)
- The Financial Genius (1876)
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| Fiction |
- "Nina" (1848)
- The Simpleton (1850)
- "The Comic Actor" (1851)
- Boyarshchina (1858)
- One Thousand Souls (1858)
- "An Old Man's Sin" (1861)
- Troubled Seas (1863)
- Men of the Forties (1869)
- In the Vortex (1871)
- Masons (1880)
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