Chatsky & Miser, Miser! Two Plays By Anthony Burgess by Alexander Griboyedov
Two Plays
Two satirical plays present sharp comedies of manners set in early 19th-century Russian society: the first follows a bright, outspoken young man who returns home full of liberal ideas only to find a world of petty gossip, hypocrisy and arranged alliances that ostracize him for speaking truth to convention; the second is a farce about an obsessive hoarder whose parsimony wreaks havoc on his family’s relationships and prospects, exposing how greed and small‑mindedness corrode domestic and social life. Both pieces blend lively dialogue, biting satire and bittersweet irony to lampoon self‑interest, social pretension and the clash between progressive thought and stifling tradition.
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- Woe from Wit
- Горе от ума
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