Woe from Wit
Woe from Wit Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. Its protagonist, Alexander Chatsky, is an idealistic ironist, a complex Romantic figure who would be…
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Woe from Wit
Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. Its protagonist, Alexander Chatsky, is an idealistic ironist, a complex Romantic figure who would be echoed in Russian literature from Pushkin onward. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique.
In the meantime, she has fallen in love with Molchalin, her reactionary father Famusov's scheming secretary. Chatsky returns from three years abroad hoping to rekindle a romance with his childhood sweetheart, Sophie. Chatsky speaks out against the hypocrisy of aristocratic society--and as scandal erupts, he is met with accusations of madness.Woe from Wit was written in 1823 and was an immediate sensation, but under heavy-handed tsarist censorship, it was