The Artistic Interpretation of Female Psychology in A.n. Ostrovsky’s “the Dowryless Girl” and G.b. Shaw’s “mrs Warren’s Profession”
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The article examines the artistic interpretation of female psychology in A.N.Ostrovsky’s “The Dowryless Girl” (1878) and G.B.Shaw’s “Mrs Warren’s Profession” (1893), focusing on female fate and socio-moral conflict, the comparative psychology of the heroines, and the poetics of dramatic form. Using comparative-typological, historical-contextual, psychological, structural-semiotic and poetics-of-drama methods, the study shows that Ostrovsky constructs female fate as an almost irreversible verdict of the dowry-based marriage market, while Shaw constructs it as a reversible condition rooted in the exploitation of female labour. Larisa Ogudalova’s psychology is organised around feeling and expressed through song and silence; the psychology of Vivie Warren and Mrs Warren is organised around calculation and expressed through argument and extended stage directions. The results extend existing scholarship on both playwrights.
Institution: Ferghana State University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7225570498