Resultado de búsqueda
The Government Inspector is a work of enormous scale, at one extreme an entertaining comedy of errors and, at the other, an illuminating drama of corruption. No single interpretation encompasses all its meaning. . . . It is a play of great originality, that contains the inexhaustible riches of all great art.
Summary. PDF Cite Share. The mayor of the town, Anton Antonovich, receives a disquieting letter. A friend writes that an inspector is coming to visit the province and particularly his district ...
Bolshoi Theatre • The Government Inspector
In Nikolai Gogol 's comedy The Government Inspector, a stranger called Khlestakov arrives in a provincial town and is mistaken for a government official whose advent has been expected and (since ...
Russian Realism and Dramatic Comedy. Gogol has often been dubbed the ‘‘father of Russian realism.’’. The Government Inspector introduced the principles of dramatic realism to the Russian ...
The Dangers of Tunnel Vision. Almost every character in the play is willing to accept that Khlestakov is the government inspector, even if there is evidence that suggests otherwise. The tunnel vision of the characters leads to their downfall. It is young Marya who actually points out a couple of times that what Khlestakov is saying does not ...
The Government Inspector is set in a remote, provincial Russian town in the 1830s. The town’s mayor assembles other local officials in his home and announces that an incognito government inspector from St. Petersburg is coming with “secret instructions” to investigate them. The mayor frantically warns the officials to hide evidence of their maladministration before the inspector arrives.
