Without a Dowry and Other Plays

A collection of plays from one of Russia's most important writers of the 19th century.

Translated from the Russian and with an Introduction by Norman Henley

A contemporary of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and precursor to Chekhov, Alexander Ostrovsky was a keen sociological observer, often exposing abuses of power, landing him in trouble with the censors again and again. He wrote forty-seven original plays and began the tradition of acting today associated with Stanislavsky. Ostrovsky's p...