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The Hypochondriac (play)

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In 1855, after prolonged negotiations, the permission for the comedy to be produced on stage the Imperial Theatres was received. It premiered on 21 September 1855 in Saint Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theatre and had a run of six performances. Reviews were mixed and occasionally contained
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sported some jaundice, but nothing apart from that. I doubt that from all this one could pick a single advise to follow. There's just one thing: for me looks a bit too long and so I am going to make some
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called it "excellent... highly intelligent comedy," even if "overblown" and sporting a hero that was "unspeakably dull".
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said that the comedy's plot lacked the starting point. This may be true, but to do something about it is now impossible.
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As the play was rejected by censors in 1852, Pisemsky embarked upon re-writing it, following
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s No. 1, 1851 issue. Stopped by censors in 1852, it premiered on 21 September 1855 in
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Index

Aleksey Pisemsky
Moskvityanin
Hardback
Paperback
Russian
romanized
comedy
Alexey Pisemsky
Moskvityanin
Saint Petersburg
Alexandrinsky Theatre
Mikhail Pogodin
Sovremennik
Biblioteka Dlya Chtenya
Otechestvennye Zapiski
Nikolai Nekrasov
Maly Theatre
Prov Sadovsky
Nadezhda Rykalova



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