Woe from Wit : : A Verse Comedy in Four Acts / / Alexander Griboedov.
Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique. Its protagonist, Alexander Chats...
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Griboedov, Alexander, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Woe from Wit : A Verse Comedy in Four Acts / Alexander Griboedov. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Russian Library Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Translator’s Note -- Dramatis Personae -- Woe from Wit restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique. Its protagonist, Alexander Chatsky, is an idealistic ironist, a complex Romantic figure who would be echoed in Russian literature from Pushkin onward. Chatsky returns from three years abroad hoping to rekindle a romance with his childhood sweetheart, Sophie. In the meantime, she has fallen in love with Molchalin, her reactionary father Famusov’s scheming secretary. Chatsky speaks out against the hypocrisy of aristocratic society—and as scandal erupts, he is met with accusations of madness.Woe from Wit was written in 1823 and was an immediate sensation, but under heavy-handed tsarist censorship, it was not published in full until forty years later. Its influence is felt not just in Russian literary language but in everyday speech. It is the source of a remarkable number of frequently "ed aphorisms and turns of phrase, comparable to Shakespeare’s influence on English. Yet owing to its complex rhyme scheme and verse structure, the play has frequently been considered almost untranslatable. Betsy Hulick’s translation brings Griboedov’s sparkling wit, spirited dialogue, and effortless crossing of registers from elevated to colloquial into a lively contemporary English. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Man-woman relationships Russia Drama. Russian drama (Comedy) 19th century Translations into English. Social classes Russia Drama. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union. bisacsh Brintlinger, Angela, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Hulick, Betsy, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110710977 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2020 English 9783110704747 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2020 9783110704532 ZDB-23-DKU print 9780231189781 https://doi.org/10.7312/grib18978 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231548519 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231548519/original |
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