The Government Inspector and Other Russian Plays - Penguin Classics

The following plays are included:
The Government Inspector by Gogol, The Infant by Foncizin, Chatsky by Griboyedon and Thunder by Ostrovsky.
In The Government Inspector, holding up a mirror to the farcical masquerade of provincial bureaucracy, Gogol wrote what is still the greatest play in the Russian language. Gogol, when a schoolboy, apparently played a memorable leading role in Fonvizin's The Infant, a gloriously bold comedy and the oldest Russian play to have survived in repertory. These, along with Chatsky, subtitled The Misery of Having a Mind, and Thunder, constitute some of the golden moments in Russian theatre prior to Chekhov...