The Government Inspector, 9781854591746
Paperback
A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Government Inspector

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  • Paperback

    123 pages

  • Release Date

    6 March 1997

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Summary

Drama Classics: The World’s Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I.

A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in.

This English version of Nikolai Gogol’s play The Government Ins…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781854591746
ISBN-10:1854591746
Author:Nikolai Gogol, Stephen Mulrine
Publisher:Nick Hern Books
Imprint:Nick Hern Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:123
Edition:New edition
Release Date:6 March 1997
Weight:94g
Dimensions:160mm x 105mm x 7mm
Series:Drama Classics
About The Author

Nikolai Gogol

Stephen Mulrine (1937–2020) was a Glasgow-born poet and playwright who wrote extensively for radio and television, and published many translations, including English translations of plays in Russian by Chekhov, Gogol and Gorky, as well as translations of plays by Ibsen, Molière, Pirandello, Strindberg and others.

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