Criticism

Cooper, Joshua. Introduction to The Government Inspector and other Russian Plays, translated by Joshua Cooper, pp. 9-33. London: Penguin Books, 1972.

Includes a short history of Russian theater and an overview of Ostrovsky's works. Book contains a translation of Ostrovsky's Groza (The Thunderstorm).

Kaspin, Albert. "A Re-examination of Ostrovsky's Character Lyubim Tortsov." In Studies in Russian and Polish Literature in Honor of Wacław Lednicki, edited by Zbigniew Folejewski, Michael Karpovich, Francis J. Whitfield, and Albert Kaspin, pp. 185-91. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1962.

Reassesses the central character of the play Poverty Is No Crime.

Van Holk, André. "The Syntax of the Slovo-er: On the Thematic Composition of A. N. Ostrovskij's An Advantageous Job." Russian Linguistics 8, No. 3 (1984): 215-50.

Uses a linguistic approach to narrative theory to analyze the thematic structures of the play An Advantageous Job.

—. "The Key Scene in Ostrovskij's The Thunderstorm (On the Analysis of Modal Profiles)." International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 31-32 (1985): 481-93.

Analyzes a scene from Groza (The Thunderstorm) in an attempt to clarify the relationship between the structure of a narrative and the structure of its linguistic material.

Whittaker, Robert. "The Ostrovskii-Grigor'ev Circle, Alias the 'Young Editors' of the Moskvitianin." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 24, No. 4 (Winter 1990): 385-412.

Discusses the origin and history of the loosely organized circle of which Ostrovsky was a member and its influence on Moscow's culture.

Zohrab, Irene. "Problems of Style in the Plays of A. N. Ostrovsky." Melbourne Slavonic Studies, No. 12 (1977): 35-46.

Examines Ostrovsky's dramatic theories and how he applied them in his plays.

—. "Problems of Translation: The Plays of A. N. Ostrovsky in English." Melbourne Slavonic Studies, No. 16 (1982): 43-88.

Discusses the particular difficulties which Ostrovsky's plays pose for translators.