Глитай, або ж Павук (Марко Кропивницький)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Quick spoken dialogue and stage directions, the vocative (Осипе Степановичу, Андрію, Олено), polite forms of address (государю мій, государине моя), vocabulary of debt and interest (позика, проценти, росписка, вексель), colloquial southern words (либонь, мерщій, осьдечки), Russian and Church Slavonic words in Ukrainian speech, older spellings such as люде, инший and сьогодня, Ukrainian drama of the 1880s

This article contains the full text of Marko Kropyvnytskyi’s drama The Usurer, or the Spider (Глитай, або ж Павук, written and first published 1882), in the 1923 Kharkiv edition: in a village of the Kherson region a rich moneylender who poses as a pious benefactor takes the villagers’ oxen and houses and wants the young wife of a poor man who owes him money and has gone away to work. Level B2 suits readers who can follow quick spoken dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of debt, interest and village life, colloquial words of southern Ukraine, how Russian forms of address and Church Slavonic quotations mark a hypocrite’s speech, and the older spellings of the edition, such as люде and инший.

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