| Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies Contributor(s): Pushkin, Alexander (Author), Clarke, Roger (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1847496911 ISBN-13: 9781847496911 Publisher: Alma Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting - Drama | European - General |
| Dewey: 891.723 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.80 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clarke, Roger: - ROGER CLARKE is best known as a film-writer for the Independent newspaper and more recently Sight & Sound. Inspired by a childhood spent in two haunted houses, Roger Clarke has spent much of his life trying to see a ghost. He was the youngest person ever to join the Society for Psychical Research in the 1980s and was getting his ghost stories published by The Pan & Fontana series of horror books at just 15, when Roald Dahl asked his agent to take him on as a client. He is the author of Ghosts: True Stories. |