The Minor (Fonvizin play)
The Minor (or Young ignoramus, Недоросль), is a 1782 play by Denis Fonvizin.[1][2]
| Minor | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Недоросль |
| Written by | Denis Fonvizin |
| Date premiered | 1783 |
| Original language | Russian |
| Genre | Comedy, play |
References
- Neil Cornwell Reference Guide to Russian Literature 2013 p305 1134260709 More successful in every way was Fonvizin's masterpiece, The Minor (also translated as The Infant, The Young Hopeful, etc) (1782), ...
- Milton Ehre Gogol: Plays and Selected Writings 1980 - p xvi 0810111594 Fonvizin's The Minor (1782), besides being the best eighteenth-century Russian comedy, is exemplary of the tangle of elements that went into the genre and which Gogol was finally to unravel. It is a play with two faces: on the one side, a crisp satire of the boorishness and brutality of the worst segment of the Russian provincial gentry; on the other, a tiresome lecture on the virtues of enlightenment and aristocratic honor.
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