Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

by Alexander Pushkin

Book Overview

Alexander Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies, which confront greed, envy, lust, and blasphemy, while Rusalka is a tragedy of a different kind--a lyric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199554048
• ISBN13: 9780199554041
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"