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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