Stray Sheep": A.N. Ostrovsky's "adaptation" of T. Cicconi's play "Le Pecorelle Smarrite"

The article discusses the artistic originality of A.N. Ostrovsky's "adaptation", "Stray Sheep" (1868), based on the play by the Italian playwright Teobaldo Cicconi (1824-1863) "Le Pecorelle Smarrite". The comparative analysis of the two works allows to speak about resembling aesthetic and artistic views of the playwrights. They use common people's life experiences to solve moral and ethical problems, introduce routine as the basis of the epic reconstruction of customs, develop psychological analysis methods. At the same time comparison of the Russian play and the Italian comedy shows A.N. Ostrovsky's aspiration to reduce the melodramatics in creating characters, to strengthen the originality of each character resulting from the real circumstances that determine it. A.N. Ostrovsky's work on "Stray Sheep" was a stage in his creativity when he was learning the Italian drama (Goldoni, Giacometti, etc.), a stage useful for his original and translation works.

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