Boris Godunov: a drama in verse
by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
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Chapters (53)
- BORIS GODUNOV
- A Drama in Verse
- Rendered into English verse by Alfred Hayes
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE*
- PALACE OF THE KREMLIN
- (FEBRUARY 20th, A.D. 1598)
- THE RED SQUARE
- THE PEOPLE
- THE VIRGIN'S FIELD
- THE NEW NUNNERY. The People.
- THE PALACE OF THE KREMLIN
- BORIS, PATRIARCH, Boyars
- NIGHT
- Cell in the Monastery of Chudov (A.D. 1603)
- FENCE OF THE MONASTERY*
- PALACE OF THE PATRIARCH
- PATRIARCH, ABBOT of the Chudov Monastery
- PALACE OF THE TSAR
- Two Attendants
- TAVERN ON THE LITHUANIAN FRONTIER
- MISSAIL and VARLAAM, wandering friars; GREGORY in secular attire; HOSTESS
- MOSCOW. SHUISKY'S HOUSE
- SHUISKY. A number of Guests. Supper
- PALACE OF THE TSAR
- The TSAREVICH is drawing a map. The TSAREVNA. The NURSE of the Tsarevna
- CRACOW. HOUSE OF VISHNEVETSKY
- The PRETENDER and a CATHOLIC PRIEST
- CASTLE OF THE GOVERNOR
- MNISHEK IN SAMBOR
- A SUITE OF LIGHTED ROOMS.
- VISHNEVETSKY, MNISHEK
- NIGHT
- THE GARDEN. THE FOUNTAIN
- THE LITHUANIAN FRONTIER
- (OCTOBER 16TH, 1604)
- THE COUNCIL OF THE TSAR
- The TSAR, the PATRIARCH and Boyars
- A PLAIN NEAR NOVGOROD SEVERSK
- (DECEMBER 21st, 1604)
- OPEN SPACE IN FRONT OF THE CATHEDRAL IN MOSCOW
- THE PEOPLE
- SYEVSK
- The PRETENDER, surrounded by his supporters
- A FOREST
- PRETENDER and PUSHKIN
- MOSCOW. PALACE OF THE TSAR
- BORIS. BASMANOV
- A TENT
- BASMANOV leads in PUSHKIN
- PUBLIC SQUARE IN MOSCOW
- PUSHKIN enters, surrounded by the people
- THE KREMLIN. HOUSE OF BORIS
- A GUARD on the Staircase. FEODOR at a Window
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