Boris Godunow (drama)

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Boris Godunow ( Russian Бори́с Годуно́в ) is a drama by Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin from 1825 .

After Friedrich Schiller had already started to deal with the historical person of Boris Godunov in the fragmented tragedy Demetrius , Pushkin succeeded in his drama Boris Godunow in a rousing sequence of scenes about the lure of power, the powerlessness and fickleness of the people. The play is in the spirit and style of William Shakespeare's historical dramas. It was written in 1825 and published in 1831, but was not released for performance by the censors until 1866. It consists of 25 scenes and is mainly written in blank verse .

Adaptations

Modest Mussorgsky used Pushkin's drama as one of the text templates for his opera Boris Godunov , the original version of which was written between 1868 and 1870. By 1872 he revised the work and added more scenes.

Sergei Bondarchuk filmed the drama in 1986. Its adaptation was screened in the competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival .

plant

Alexander S. Puschkin, Boris Godunow , Reclam, Ditzingen 1986, ISBN 3150022126

literature

  • Martin Schulze: Alexander S. Pushkin: Boris Godunow - Poetry and Reality. Ullstein Book No. 5006. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Main 1963.