A Feast in Time of Plague

''A Feast in Time of Plague'' (russian: «Пир во время чумы», Pir vo vremya chumy) is an 1830 play by Aleksandr Pushkin. The plot concerns a banquet in which the central figure taunts death with a toast "And so, O Plague, we hail thy reign!". The story is based on 4th scene of Act 1 of John Wilson's play "The City of Plague" (1816).

The play was written in 1830 and published in 1832 as one of four ''Little Tragedies'' (Malenkie tragedii, russian: Маленькие трагедии) together with ''The Stone Guest'' (Kamenny gost', russian: Каменный гость); ''Mozart and Salieri'' (Motsart i Salyeri, russian: Моцарт и Сальери) and ''The Miserly Knight'' (Skupoy rytsar, russian: Скупой рыцарь). All four of these plays were set as one act operas by Russian composers; Dargomyzhsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, and for the ''Feast'', César Cui.

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1830 plays
Plays by Aleksandr Pushkin
Plays adapted into operas

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