Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others

Name: Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others
Brand: Vintage
SKU: 9780593467565-PRUSDTR-US
Price: 112.0 HKD
Availability: InStock

The Complete Plays

Alexander Pushkin (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

Variant

Price:

HK$112.00 HK$170.00

Stock:

Re-stocking soon

Quantity:

Product Info

English • Age Adult - Adult

304 pages • 5.14 x 7.97 x 0.66 in

Approx. weight: 0.46 lb

Publication date: 17 Jan,2023

Barcode: 9780593467565 • Vintage

More books in English for Age Adult - Adult

Plays/ playscripts

Plays playscripts
Anthologies: general
Fiction: general and literary

Share this product

By: Alexander Pushkin

The award-winning translators bring us the complete plays of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era.

Known as the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin was celebrated for his dramas as well as his poetry and stories. His most famous play is Boris Godunov (later adapted into a popular opera by Mussorgsky), a tale of ambition and murder centered on the sixteenth-century Tsar who preceded the Romanovs. Pushkin was inspired by the example of Shakespeare to create this panoramic drama, with its richly varied cast of characters and artful blend of comic and tragic scenes.

Pushkin’s shorter forays into verse drama include The Water Nymph, A Scene from Faust, and the four brief plays known as the Little Tragedies: The Miserly Knight, set in medieval France; Mozart and Salieri, which inspired the popular film Amadeus; The Stone Guest, a tale of Don Juan in Madrid; and A Feast in a Time of Plague, in which a group of revelers defy quarantine in plague-ridden London. These new translations of the complete plays, from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, freshly reveal the range of Pushkin’s enduring artistry.