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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. [1] Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, [2 ...
A play about a village in Imperial Russia that mistakes a traveler for a government inspector and panics. Learn about the plot, characters, context and analysis of this satirical masterpiece by Nikolai Gogol.
A mysterious stranger, obviously a high-born gentleman, is at that moment lodging in the local inn, and he has been there a fortnight. His servant let it out that his master is from St. Petersburg ...
Act 1. 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 ...
A comedy of errors about a corrupt Russian town that mistakes a young clerk for a government inspector. Read the plot summary, themes, characters, and study guide of this classic play by Nikolai Gogol.
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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.
The Government Inspector, farcical drama in five acts by Nikolay Gogol, originally performed and published as Revizor in 1836. The play, sometimes translated as The Inspector General, mercilessly lampoons the corrupt officials of an obscure provincial town that is portrayed as a microcosm of the
