Gorky Plays: 1

by Maxim Gorky

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413181103
• ISBN13: 9780413181107
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.8"