Summary: The Saga of Cuchulainn

Once upon a land of uladov birds of an unknown breed flew and began to devour all the fruits, cereals, grass, all the greenery to the very root. Then, in order to save their livelihood, the ulas decide to equip the nine chariots and set out to hunt the birds. On the hunt go and … Read more

Summary Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Sorochinsky Fair

SOROCHINSKAYA FAIR Opera in three acts (four scenes) Libretto of M. P. Mussorgsky with the participation of A. A. Golenishchev-Kutuzov Characters: Cherevik Khivrya, Cherevik’s wife Parasya, daughter of Cherevik, step-daughter of Khivri Kum Gritsko, a couple Afanasy Ivanovich, Popovich Gypsy Chernobog Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Bass Baritone Tenor Characteristic tenor Bass Bass Merchants, merchants, gypsies, … Read more

“Rameau’s nephew” Diderot in brief summary

The work is written in the form of a dialogue. His characters – the narrator and nephew of Jean-Philippe Rameau – the largest representative of classicism in French music of the times of Diderot. The narrator first gives a characterization to Rameau’s nephew: he certifies him as one “one of the most bizarre and strange … Read more

Summary of the Cabal of the Holy (Moliere) Bulgakov

MA Bulgakov Kabala svjatosh (Moliere) The play takes place in Paris in the age of Louis XIV. Actors Zhan Batist Poquelin de Moliere – the famous playwright and actor Madlena Bezhar, Marietta Rival, Armanda Bezhar Moliere – Actress Charles Varlet de La Grange – actor, nicknamed the “Register” Zahariya Muarron – the famous actor-lover Philibert … Read more

“Athaliah” Racine in brief summary

The action takes place in the kingdom of Judea, in the temple of Jerusalem. Joram, the seventh king of Judah from the dynasty of David, married to Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, who ruled over the kingdom of Israel. Athaliah, like her parents, an idolater who inclined her husband to build a temple in … Read more

“Dona Flor and her two husbands” J. Amado in brief

A resident of a small town of Salvador in the outskirts of Bahia, Floripedes Paiva Guimaraes, a young hostess of the culinary school “Taste and Art,” becomes a widow. Her husband Valdomiro, nicknamed Gulyak, a drunkard, gambler, womanizer and merry fellow, dies in the color of years in the midst of a carnival from a … Read more

Synopsis of Sinbad the Marine

The seventh journey of Sinbad the Sailor. Sinbad for the seventh time goes on a journey. He is traveling from Baghdad to Basra. His ship reached China. But, when Sandbad almost sailed to the shore, his ship was blown away by the wind, a storm began on the sea. Here the captain of the ship … Read more

“Glass Menagerie” Williams in brief

This is, in fact, a memory. Tom Wingfield talks about the time – between the two wars – when he lived in St. Louis with his mother Amanda Wingfield – a woman endowed with great zest for life, but unable to adapt to the present and desperately clinging to the past, and sister Laura, a … Read more

Summary Mumu Ivan Turgenev

IS Turgenev Mumu “In one of the remote streets of Moscow, in a gray house with white columns, a mezzanine and a crooked balcony, once lived a lady, a widow surrounded by a large courtyard… Of all her servants, the most remarkable person was the janitor Gerasim, a man twelve heights of growth, built by … Read more

Summary “Adolescence”

The story “Adolescence” by Leo Tolstoy was written in 1852 – 1853, becoming the second work in the pseudo-autobiographical trilogy of the author. The story refers to the literary direction of realism. In “Adolescence” Tolstoy describes the events from the life of a teenager – how he reacts to the world around him and what … Read more