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The Storm (The Thunderstorm)

by Alexander Ostrovsky from 1859

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Ostrovsky's Groza (The Thunderstorm, 1859) is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama: Katerina, a woman of spiritual intensity trapped in a suffocating merchant family in a provincial Volga town, falls into an adulterous relationship and is destroyed by guilt and the community's judgment. The play's portrait of the 'dark kingdom' of Russian provincial merchant life — hypocritical, cruel, and stifling — was politically inflammatory; Dobrolyubov's famous essay on it launched one of the great debates of Russian nineteenth-century literary criticism. Janáček's opera Katya Kabanova (1921) is directly based on it.

Translated from the original Russian.

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The Storm (The Thunderstorm)

Characters
1
Words
2.3k
Acts
1
Scenes
9
Duration
~17 min

Characters

#CharacterPlayerLines
1
MME
—
97

10 sections

2.3k words
#TitleWords
1
Scene V
8956:43
2
Scene III
2031:31
3
Scene V
820:37
4
Scene VI
2201:39
5
Scene VII
820:37
Act III
6
Act III Scene I
1000:45
7
Scene II
3912:56
8
Scene V
1180:53
9
Scene V
700:32
10
Scene VI
1120:50

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