Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays
This volume includes Gorky's major works for the theatre. The Lower
Depths, first staged by the Moscow Art theatre in 1902, portrays a
cast of down and outs living in the underbelly of Russian society;
Summerfolk depicts a society after the disintegration of feudalism
with a new class of businessmen, intellectuals and professionals.
Children of the Sun was completed in prison in 1905 and premiered
in St Petersburg in the same year, St Petersburg critic Alexander
Kugel wrote: "If Summerfolk boxed the ears of the intelligentsia,
the Children of the Sun spits in their face"; Barbarians looks at
the tragedy of an individual caught between opposing forces in a
society on the brink of revolution - Lenin's future Minister of
Culture, Alexander Kugel wrote: "Gorky helps us to understand and
assess the mighty phenomenon of this war between two forms of
barbarism through the direct experience of real people"; Enemies
looks at the struggle between workers and industrialists and has
been described as "the missing link between Chekhov and the Russian
revolution" (Observer)
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