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Marko Kropyvnytskyi went down in the history of Ukrainian art as a great actor and talented director, playwright, and author of popular songs. On occasion, he himself created scenery for performances, being fond of painting. But his talent for playwriting was particularly deep. He is the author of dozens of plays. The most distinctive feature of his dramas was the harmonious combination of Ukrainian ethnography with topical issues of social life, where the difficult and at the same time highly spiritual folk life was clearly revealed.

"Give the heart a free hand, lead it into captivity" is the first play by M. Kropyvnytskyi that significantly determined his creative path and, having passed a long and difficult path of dramatic and stage improvement, prepared a solid foundation for the development of psychological drama in Ukrainian literature.