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Dvadcat' chetvjortogo dekabrja detjam sovetnika mediciny Shtal'bauma ves' den' ne razreshalos' vhodit' v prohodnuju komnatu, a uzh v smezhnuju s nej gostinuju ih sovsem ne puskali. V spal'ne, prizhavshis' drug k drugu, sideli v ugolke Fric i Mari. Uzhe sovsem stemnelo, i im bylo ochen' strashno, potomu chto v komnatu ne vnesli lampy, kak jeto i polagalos' v sochel'nik. Fric tainstvennym shjopotom soobshhil sestrjonke (ej tol'ko chto minulo sem' let), chto s samogo utra v zapertyh komnatah chem-to shurshali, shumeli i tihon'ko postukivali.

Otello, mavr, sniskal sebe slavu kak velikolepnyj polkovodec. On znakomitsja s Dezdemonoj, docher'ju Brabancio. Porazhjonnaja ego rasskazami o voennyh kampanijah, devushka vljubljaetsja v Otello i tajno s nim venchaetsja. Brabancio obrashhaetsja k dozhu Venecii, polagaja, chto mavr vljubil v sebja Dezdemonu posredstvom koldovstva. Odnako Otello udajotsja ubedit' vseh, chto Dezdemona sovershenno svobodna v svoej vole: «Ona menja za muki poljubila, a ja ejo za sostradan'ja k nim».

14 let p'esa Ivana Turgeneva "Nahlebnik" nahodilas' pod cenzurnym zapretom. Otnoshenie k nej bylo neodnoznachnym. Gogol' schital p'esu beznravstvennoj, zato Gercen otzyvalsja o nej vostorzhenno: "Drama, kotoruju pishet Turgenev - prosto objaden'e." Sjuzhet p'esy prost: v dome Ol'gi Petrovny Eleckoj zhivet "na hlebah" obednevshij dvorjanin Kuzovkin - chelovek dobryj, no besharakternyj. I mog li hot' kto-nibud' predpolozhit', chto odno sluchajno proiznesennoe im slovo mozhet tak kruto izmenit' sud'bu vseh geroev jetoj istorii...

Komedija napisana na osnove dejstvitel'nogo proisshestvija. «Jeto udivitel'noe i zabavnoe prikljuchenie, - rasskazyvaet Gol'doni, - proizoshlo s odnim krupnym gollandskim kupcom, i Dva ego poverennyh v Venecii soobshhili mne ego kak sjuzhet, dostojnyj komedii. Ja izmenil tol'ko mesto dejstvija i imena lic».

Odnoobraznuju zhizn' provincial'nogo gorodka Verhopol'e narushaet priezd stroitelej zheleznoj dorogi - inzhenerov Cherkuna i Cyganova. Na smenu patriarhal'nomu varvarstvu gorodskogo golovy Redozubova jeti "poborniki civilizacii" nesut novoe varvarstvo: moral'nuju degradaciju i zhestokoe ravnodushie k cheloveku. Potrebovalos' nemnogo vremeni, chtoby obnaruzhilis' plody ih razrushitel'noj dejatel'nosti.

V dome pojeta i kritika Iespersena idet podgotovka k torzhestvu po sluchaju prem'ery ego p'esy. Sam Iespersen v jeto vremja gotovit hvalebnuju recenziju, kotoruju nazavtra opublikujut v gazete. Vernuvshis' domoj, on zastaet tam svoego starinnogo druga, propavshego mnogo let tomu nazad, doktora Vendelja.

The Broadway Rapture: A Drama of the Gouldium. Against uncomfortable competition in national telegraphy, the Western Union Company, led by Jay Gould, with a number of new telegraphic firms warred to maintain her primacy. When the murderer of Jim Fisk becomes a partner in one of his competitors, revengeful competition is pursued by Gould. The Broadway Rapture is of historical fights for capital superiority. This play is one of the Gouldium, a series of dramas on the life and times of Jay Gould. As in most of these plays there are seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral episodes.

Un giallo straordinario, dove il colpevole non sa di esserlo. Un'indagine senza precedenti, in cui assassino e detective sono la stessa persona. Reo dei più turpi delitti, eppure innocente, Edipo è vittima e artefice del Fato che lo travolge, in una trama micidiale che solo gli Dei potevano concepire. Il capolavoro di Sofocle torna in una traduzione che viene da lontano, potenziato da una colonna sonora dei nostri giorni.

Glavnye geroini, miss Emilija Sedli i miss Rebekka (Bekki) Sharp, uchatsja vmeste v chastnom pansione miss Pinkerton. Bekki - sirota, doch' spivshegosja hudozhnika i francuzskoj tancovshhicy. Ona energichna, polna ambicij i uverena v svoem uspehe. Emili - doch' uspeshnogo kommersanta, krotka, mila i dobrodetel'na. Sud'by dvuh sovershenno raznyh devushek otrazhajut nravy togo vremeni. Pokazana zhizn' razlichnyh sloev obshhestva.

In The Trachinian Tragedy, better known as the Women of Trachis, the wife of Herakles, Deianeira, finds she has a rival in the house for her husband's affection. The consequences of her counteraction are incredible. In this faithful translation, F. L. Light attempts to write as good a play in English as the original in Greek. F. L. Light has also translated Antigone of Sophocles.

In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that "[D]roppeth as the gentle rain from heaven". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Spektakl' po romanu Dombi i synom velikogo anglijskogo pisatelja Charl'za Dikkensa, odin iz luchshih romanov mirovoj literatury, blistatel'nyj, ostroumnyj, veselyj i grustnyj odnovremenno. Beskonechnaja verenica figur i zhiznennyh polozhenij v jetom proizvedenii izumljaet. Ne mnogo romanov v mirovoj literature, kotorye po bogatstvu krasok i raznoobraziju tona mogut byt' postavleny v odin rjad s Dombi i Synom, ne schitaja nekotoryh pozdnejshih proizvedenij samogo Dikkensa.

This play takes place in the 1900s in Russia, at a time when it was experiencing a severe economic crisis. A crowd of ruined peasants and workers roam the country and, in the end, sink to the "bottom". The desperate situation of these discarded from people's lives is taken advantage of by the owners of fetid cellars. In one such flophouse Mikhail Kostylev is ready to squeeze the very last penny from his unfortunate and disadvantaged guests. And there are further developments....

The play is set in a small town, located on the banks of the Volga. Romantic beauty Larisa Ogudalova, daughter of an impoverished widow noblewoman and, of course, dowry, is madly in love with Sergei Sergeyevich Paratov, owner and elegant gentleman, unprincipled and calculating man who is ready for his own whim to gamble not only his, but also someone else's life.

The play begins on a summer evening at Covent Garden in London. Suddenly, pouring torrential rain, takes pedestrians by surprise, forcing them to take refuge under the portal of the Cathedral of St. Paul. Among them are phonetics professor Henry Higgins and a researcher of Indian dialects, Colonel Pickering, who came specially from India to see the professor. The encounter delights them both.

The dramatic story of "Ivan the Terrible" was created by Alexey Tolstoy, in the thirties of the XX century, during the mass repression in the USSR. In this period, Stalin, wanting to get a historical confirmation of the necessity of lawlessness, cruelty and tyranny that prevailed in the country, gave the command to unbridled glorification of Ivan IV and his entourage in the first place Malyuta Skuratov. And in this work the author was forced to retreat from historical truth, trying to exalt and to rehabilitate the image of the brutal autocrat.

The action of this, the most famous play of the great English poet and playwright William Shakespeare, takes place in Elsinore, shortly after the death of the King of Denmark. Heartbroken, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, suffers greatly over the death of his beloved father and the sudden remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude. A terrible ghost of his father, in full military dress, tells him a terrible secret: that the king did not die a natural death, but was killed by the hand of his brother Claudius, who became the current king.

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhludoff, performing his public duty as a jurist on the district court, recognizes a defendant, a prostitute accused of murder and robbery, as Katyusha Maslova, who many years ago was a maid, and a pupil of his aunt's. It was Katyusha, with whom he was not even in love, that he seduced and abandoned....

Set in late-19th-century Russian high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

Fra mille dubbi, Amleto prepara la vendetta. Mercuzio fantastica sulla fata dei sogni. Falstaff canta le lodi del buon vino. Jago ordisce il suo velenoso disegno. Prospero evoca gli spiriti dell’isola. 18 folgoranti monologhi, dalla tenebra di un efferato delitto alla levità di un universo fatato. 18 grandi prove di Sandro Lombardi, nella traduzione classica di Carlo Rusconi. Il recital shakespeariano alla massima potenza.