The Forest Song: A Fairy Play

by Lesia Ukrainka

Book Overview

The Forest Song represents the crowning achievement of Lesia Ukrainka's mature period and is a uniquely powerful poetic text. A play in three acts, it seemingly breaks with her intellectually charged social and cultural themes, which range from feminism and the deconstruction of patriarchy to the workings of colonialism, even in antiquity. Here, the author instead presents a symbolist meditation on the interaction of humanity and nature set...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674291883
• ISBN13: 9780674291881
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 160 Pages