Description |
1 online resource (xl, 208 pages) |
Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Contents |
Boris Godunov -- Historical introduction -- A scene from Faust -- The little tragedies -- The miserly knight -- Mozart and Salieri -- The stone guest -- A feast in time of plague -- Rusalka (the water-nymph) |
Summary |
James E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright. - ;'The people are silent'. So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the histo |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Translations into English
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Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Genre/Form |
Translations
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Falen, James E., 1935-
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ISBN |
9781435699038 |
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1435699033 |
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9780191526305 |
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0191526304 |
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9786611160791 |
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6611160795 |
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0191607339 |
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9780191607332 |
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