Dramascripts

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The Government Inspector

by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Aleksander Sergeyvich Griboyedov, and Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Published May 1968

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