The Government Inspector
(Paperback, New edition)
Publishing Details
The Government Inspector
By (Author) Edward O. Marsh
Edited by Nick Worrall
Edited by Non Worrall
By (author) Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Jeremy Brooks
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
New edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
891.723
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
228g
Description
Widely held to have led the realist revolution in Russian drama, Gogol liberated comedy from a tradition of didacticism and sentimentalisty. "The Government Inspector", Gogol's masterpiece, was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language. This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classical satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia.
Author Bio
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) won fame as a short story writer, and in 1836, his satirical comedy The Government Inspector created such a furore that Gogol left Russia to settle in Rome, in self-imposed exile. Religious mania in his later years contributed to his early death in Moscow.
