Drama, American

The Government Inspector

Name: The Government Inspector
Author: Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 9780413584700

by Nikolai Gogol, Adrian Mitchell

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Synopsis

This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia."The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced" Vladimir Nabokov

About the Author, Nikolai Gogol

Alistair Beaton's plays include Feelgood and Follow My Leader. He translated Gogol's The Nose for Martin Duncan at Nottingham Playhouse. He has recently published a novel, A Planet for the President.