A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart. Based on history and inspired by Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin`s daring masterwork is presented here in its rarely published uncensored version of 1825.
Set in Vienna, Flanders, Madrid and London, Pushkin`s celebrated Little Tragedies - Mozart and Salieri, The Mean-Spirited Knight, The Stone Guest and A Feast during the Plague - each focus on a protagonist`s driving obsession - with status, money, sex or risk-taking - and its devastating consequences.
This edition features an appendix containing extra historical material, notes on the play`s staging and versions of the text, as well as an extract from John Wilson`s The City of the Plague.
Set in Vienna, Flanders, Madrid and London, Pushkin`s celebrated Little Tragedies - Mozart and Salieri, The Mean-Spirited Knight, The Stone Guest and A Feast during the Plague - each focus on a protagonist`s driving obsession - with status, money, sex or risk-taking - and its devastating consequences.
This edition features an appendix containing extra historical material, notes on the play`s staging and versions of the text, as well as an extract from John Wilson`s The City of the Plague.