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A selection of Euripides’ renowned Greek tragedies, adapted for BBC Radio Acclaimed by Aristotle as ‘the most tragic of the poets’, Euripides was one of the pre-eminent playwrights of 5th century Athens. Included here are seven of his masterpieces: powerful, shocking tales of passion...

Little Women is the story of a wife and her four daughters living in genteel poverty in the environs of Boston while the father is away as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Zachastuju mnogie istorii o ljubvi zakanchivajutsja svad'boj. A p'esa Karlo Gol'doni so svad'by nachinaetsja. Kekkina i Bepo sobirajutsja pozhenit'sja, no zlym jazykam nichego ne stoit razrushit' ih namerenija. Stoit tol'ko ukazat' zhenihu na bezrodnost' i raspushhennost' nevesty. A esli zhenih tak doverchiv i prislushivaetsja k spletnjam, to neveste stoit razobrat'sja v istinnosti ego chuvstv.

A Woman of No Importance takes place in a 24-hour period during a house party hosted by Lady Hunstanton at her country estate. The upper echelons of English society mix, mingle and flirt, including Lady Caroline Pontefract (who is on her fourth husband), the witty and ironic Mrs. Allonby and the dandyish Lord Illingworth. Wilde balances these worldly characters with a visiting young American woman, Hester Worsley.

Prosper Merime (1803 - 1870) - francuzskij pisatel' i perevodchik, odin iz pervyh vo Francii masterov novelly. P'esa "Zhenshhina-d'javol, ili Iskushenie Svjatogo Antonija" vhodit v sbornik "Teatr Klary Gazul'", prinesshego pervuju izvestnost' Prosperu Merime. Jeto proizvedenie molodogo pisatelja bylo svjazano s mistifikaciej, vyzvavshej nemalo tolkov. Merime vydal svoj sbornik za sochinenie nekoej - pridumannoj im - ispanskoj aktrisy i obshhestvennoj dejatel'nicy Klary Gazul'.