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The Forest Song, 1911
Ді́я пе́рша
Act one
- Ма́вкаa spirit of the forest
- Лука́шa young man from the village who plays the reed pipe
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About the play
Lesya Ukrainka wrote this play in 1911. It is one of the best-known works of Ukrainian literature. In the forest by a lake, Mavka meets Lukash, who has come with his uncle to build a house.
The Ukrainian is Lesya Ukrainka's, as she wrote it. The English is our own.