The Uncensored Boris Godunov

by Dunning, Chester S. L.; Emerson, Caryl; Fomichev, Sergei; Lotman, Lidiia; Wood, Antony

• ISBN13: 9780299207649
• ISBN10: 0299207641
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-12
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Persuasively argues for including the original, 1825 version of the playBoris Godunov(later eclipsed by the "politically correct" edition) in the canon of Pushkinrs"s works. Includes the 1825 Russian text and the only English translation of that version.

Author Biography

Chester Dunning is professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Russia’s First Civil War. 

Caryl Emerson is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. 

Sergei Fomichev is professor of literature at the State University of Novgorod Velikii. 

Lidiia Lotman is senior researcher at the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia. 

Antony Wood is an award-winning translator of Pushkin’s poetry and a member of the editorial board of the Pushkin Premiere series published by the Pushkin State Theater, St. Petersburg.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xi
Prefaces to the Paperback Edition	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction: Reconsidering History and Expanding the Canon	p. 3
The Problem of Boris Godunov: A Review of Interpretations and the So-Called Canonical Text	p. 25
The Exiled Poet-Historian and the Creation of His Comedy	p. 51
The Tragic Fate of Pushkin's Comedy	p. 94
The World of Laughter in Pushkin's Comedy	p. 136
Tragedy, Comedy, Carnival, and History on Stage	p. 157
The Ebb and Flow of Influence: Muffling the Comedic in the Move toward Print	p. 192
Concluding Remarks: Boris Godunov and the Russian Literary Canon	p. 233
Translator's Preface	p. 239
Komediia o tsare Borise i o Grishke Otrep'eve	p. 246
Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrepiev	p. 247
Notes to Pushkin's Comedy	p. 454
Bibliography	p. 511
Index	p. 535
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