A Feast in Time of Plague
For the opera, see Feast in Time of Plague (opera).
A Feast in Time of Plague (Pir vo vremya chumy Пир во время чумы) 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 play was published in 1830 as one of four Little Tragedies (Malenkie tragedii Маленькие трагедии) together with The Stone Guest (Kamenny gost Каменный гость); Mozart and Salieri (Motsart i Salyeri Моцарт и Сальери) and The Miserly Knight (Skupoy rytsar Скупой рыцарь). All four of these plays were set as one act operas by Russian composers; Dargomyzhsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, and for the Feast, Cesar Cui.
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