M. Maeterlinck Monna Bath Events unfold in Pisa at the end of the XV century. Head of the Pisa garrison Guido Colonna discusses the situation with his lieutenants Borso and Torello: Pisa is surrounded by enemies – the troops of the Florentines, and the troops sent by Venice to help the Pisans could not get … Read more
Spain, early XX century. Mountain village. The play begins in the house of the Bridegroom. Mother, learning that he is going to the vineyard and wants to take a knife, breaks into curses to the one who invented the knives, and the guns and pistols are all that can kill a man. Her husband and … Read more
Walter Scott Puritans May 5, 1679 in the quiet wilderness of Upper Ward Clydesdale, a place in Scotland, all the new members come to the annual review. Dressed ladies and gentlemen, a motley crowd of onlookers. The picture is quite peaceful. But it only seems so. The Privy Council, the supreme executive authority in Scotland, … Read more
At the beginning of the story, the description of the midday beauties of the end of summer in Little Russia. On the way to the fair in Sorochinets, loaded with goods, wagons are moving, many people are walking there too. On one of the carts sat a black-browed girl – Paraska and her wicked stepmother, … Read more
Beginning the narrative, the author declares that his main goal is to show the general character of the epoch, its mores, concepts, beliefs, and therefore he allowed the deviation from history in detail – and concludes that his most important feeling was indignation: not so in John, as a society that is not indignant at … Read more
Somehow returning from a hunt, the author noticed a funeral procession. The coachman acknowledged the relatives of the deceased: it turned out that they were burying Martyn the carpenter. At the bar’s cart at this time broke the axis, in which the coachman saw the consequence of the appearance of the deceased. The author had … Read more
The play precedes the dedication of Henrietta of England, the wife of the brother of the king, the official patron of the troupe. The author’s foreword informs the readers that the answers to the condemned play are contained in Criticism. Two old friends – Krisald and Arnolf – discuss the intention of the latter to … Read more
Summer. The last time the main heroine of Alya Amosova was in her native village of Letovka last year, at her mother’s funeral. Now she wanted to know as much as possible about the news from her aunt Anisya and Mani, who came to visit. They told her about the main thing – the construction … Read more
Aristophanes (other Greek, Greek) (444 BC – between 387 and 380, Athens) is an ancient Greek comedian, “the father of comedy.” Aristophanes put his first comedy in 427, but under a different name. When a year later (426) he ridiculed in his “Babylonians” a powerful demagogue, Cleon’s tanner, the latter accused him before the council … Read more
English engineer William Perry, generously rewarded by the Russian Tsar Peter for diligence in arranging locks on the Voronezh River, with a letter calling his brother Bertrand to Russia for the execution of a new tsar’s plan – the creation of a continuous navigable passage between Don and Oko. There are big sluice and channel … Read more