Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works PDF Alexander Pushkin

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Most dangerous for any playwright was monotony of technique. Even satiric laughter, if applied too predictably, could lose its cleansing force—and murders, if habitual, cease to shock. Didactic moralizing is always inappropriate, Pushkin warns, for it is not the business of the dramatic poet to ‘excuse, condemn, or prompt’. Authentic tragedy must be as ‘impartial as Fate’. And impartiality can be achieved only if the playwright resolves to ‘express the people of the past, their minds, their prejudices’ within the value-system of their own time.

Pushkin had long felt that this task was beyond the means of tragedy as presently construed on the European stage. It was also beyond the competence, or the intent, of Romantic playwrights such as Victor Hugo, whose writings about drama Pushkin found far more satisfying than the verbose and sentimental plays that Hugo actually authored. One inspiration for dramatic reform that Pus

• Book Name: Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works pdf
• Author Name Alexander Pushkin
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2007

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