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The Government Inspector. Translated here by Arthur A Sykes 1892. Arthur Sykes died in 1939. All Gogol’s staging instructions have been left in this edition. The names and naming tradition (use of first and family names) have been left as in the original Russian, as have some of the colloquiums and an expected understanding of the intricacies ...
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Feb 28, 2022 · The Government Inspector. by. Gogol, Nikolai. Publication date. 1972. Publisher. [Place of publication not identified] : Heinemann. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
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Studies of the original manuscripts of The Government Inspector have led scholars to believe that it was written in several days of feverish activity. Less than a year later, the play opened at the Imperial Dramatic Theater in St. Petersburg on May 1 , 1 836, bewildering the fashionable audience.
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The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General (Russian: Ревизор, romanized: Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition.
One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite. In a small town corruption is rife, and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made. So when they learn they are going to be subject to an undercover government inspection they panic.
