Woe from WitElizabeth Hulick, Angela Brintlinger et al.
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"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, 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…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2020Columbia University Press · 144 pages · 9780231189781
- Other · English · 2020Columbia University Press · 144 pages · 9780231189798
Slavic philologyTranslations into EnglishMan-woman relationshipsDramaSocial classesRussian drama (Comedy)