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Quick spoken dialogue and stage directions, the imperative and the vocative (Мошку, отамане, пане), vocabulary of serfdom and the outlaw band (панщина, облава, гайдамаки, економ), folk songs, older spellings such as од for від and тільки-ж, Ukrainian drama of the 1920s
This article contains the full text of Stepan Vasylchenko’s play Karmeliuk (1927) about Ustym Karmaliuk, the folk hero of Podillia who robbed the landlords in the early 19th century: a name-day feast in the forest, a night of fear in a gentry manor and a village crowd waiting for him. Level B2 suits readers who can follow quick spoken dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of serfdom and the outlaw band, the language of folk songs and the older spellings of the 1927 edition, such as од for від.