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- English
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Russian Comedy of the Nikolaian Rea
About this book
These four Russian comedies were written during the reign of Nicholas I, a period of considerable repression and censorship. They represent the most popular genres of the period.
Lensky's Her First Night was an immensely popular vaudeville which held the stage for years; Kozma Prutkov's Fantasy is a parody of vaudeville which was banned after one night. Turgenev's Luncheon with the Marshal is a comedy of manners about provincial life, and Saltykov-Schedrin's Pazukhin's Death is a satire of greed and corruption so savage that it was forbidden during the author's lifetime.
This collection constitutes a remarkable comic spectrum which will assist in enlarging the English language repertoire with a set of newly available and hightly stageworthy scripts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Series
- Introduction
- Her First Night (Lev Gurych Sinichkin, or The Provincial Actress’s Debut), a vaudeville in five acts
- Fantasy, a farce-vaudeville in one act
- Luncheon with the Marshal of Nobility, or A Friendly Division
- Pazukhin’s Death, a comedy in four acts