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the uncensored (cid:2) Boris Godunov Frontispiece. Final page of the original manuscript of Pushkin’s Komediia o tsare Borise i o Grishke Otrep’eve,dated 7 November 1825. From Institut russkoi literatury (Pushkinskii Dom) RAN, Rukopisnyi otdel, fond 244, opis’ 1, No. 891, list 51. Courtesy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. the uncensored Boris Godunov (cid:2) The Case for Pushkin’s Original Comedy, with Annotated Text and Translation Chester Dunning with Caryl Emerson, Sergei Fomichev, Lidiia Lotman, and Antony Wood the university of wisconsin press This book was published with the support of Texas A&M University, the Princeton University Committee for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 2006 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dunning, Chester S. L., 1949– The uncensored Boris Godunov : the case for Pushkin’s original comedy, with annotated text and translation / Chester Dunning with Caryl Emerson ... [et al.]. p.cm. – (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-299-20760-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837. Boris Godunov. 2. Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, Czar of Russia, 1551?–1605– Drama. I. Emerson, Caryl. II. Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837. Boris Godunov. III. Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837. Boris Godunov. English. IV. Title. V.Series. PG3343.B64D86 2005 891.72(cid:2)3– dc22 2004025636 ISBN 0-299-20764-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) Dedicated to the memory of Philip Vellacott, a great friend and teacher Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface to the First Edition xi Prefaces to the Paperback Edition xv Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: Reconsidering History and Expanding the Canon 3 Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning 1 The Problem of Boris Godunov: A Review of Interpretations and the So-Called Canonical Text 25 Chester Dunning 2 The Exiled Poet-Historian and the Creation of His Comedy 51 Chester Dunning 3 The Tragic Fate of Pushkin’s Comedy 94 Chester Dunning 4 The World of Laughter inPushkin’s Comedy 136 Sergei Fomichev vii viii Contents 5 Tragedy, Comedy, Carnival, and History on Stage 157 Caryl Emerson 6 The Ebb and Flow of Influence: Muffling the Comedic in the Move toward Print 192 Caryl Emerson Concluding Remarks: Boris Godunovand the Russian Literary Canon 233 Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning Translator’s Preface 239 Antony Wood Komediia o tsare Borise i o Grishke Otrep’eve 246 Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrepiev 247 Translated by Antony Wood Notes to Pushkin’s Comedy 454 Chester Dunning with Lidiia Lotman and Antony Wood Bibliography 511 Index 535 Illustrations 1. Pushkin’s drawing of Grishka Otrepiev 33 2. Pushkin’s drawing of Historian Laureate Nikolai Karamzin and some devils 63 3. Early seventeenth-century woodcut of the Pretender Dmitry Ivanovich 108 4. Preliminary title page of Pushkin’s play 146 5. Early seventeenth-century woodcut of Princess Maryna Mniszech 211 ix
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