The Morality of Mrs. Dulska
A Play by Gabriela Zapolska (Intellect Books - Play Text)
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Author
Contributions
- Teresa Murjas (Editor) - Contributor
Publication
Intellect Books
Language
English
Translation of: Moralność pani Dulskiej
Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-101841501662
- ISBN-139781841501666
- LibraryThing5100633
- Library of Congress Control Number2008371399
- OCLC Control Number153551678
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781841501666
- Open LibraryOL12569159M
Classifications
- LCCPG7158.Z35M6313 2007
- LCCPG7158.Z35 M6313 2007
Description
Born during the tumultuous one-hundred-year division of Poland by Austria, Prussia, and Russia, Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921) was an actor, journalist, and playwright who wrote over thirty plays in her lifetime. In her best-known work, The Morality of Mrs. Dulska, a tyrannical landlady harasses, exploits, and even prostitutes the eccentric cast of tenants who occupy her stone tenement building. The petty-bourgeois tragicomedy that ensues is regarded as a landmark of early modernist Polish drama. A cross between Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Patricia Routledge’s Hyacinth Bucket, Mrs. Dulska keeps her purse strings tightly drawn and shows no compassion towards the sad plights of her lodgers—until she is forced to come to terms with her own possessive love for her son. Now available for the first time in an English-language edition that firmly situates the play in the context of its performance history, Zapolska’s incisive play is an uncompromising look at gender, class, and relationships in fin-de-siècle Poland.
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