One of the most famous comedies in world theatre; Gogols masterpiece has lost none of its bite. In a small town corruption is rife; and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made. So when they learn they are going to be subject to an undercover government inspection they panic. Mistaking a penniless nobody for the inspector they swiftly fall victims to their own stupidity and greed.A dazzling blend of preposterous characters and familiar situations; Nabokov called The Government Inspector the greatest play in the Russian language. A production of this version of the play opened at the Chichester Festival in June 2005 starring the comedian Alistair McGowan.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Speaking of BeingBy Thomas G. LamsonWiskus uses the late work of Merleau-Ponty and the great French artists of the turn of the 20th century to show demonstrate that urge to create is at root the art of Being enacting itself.4 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Balancing Science With Other Modes of KnowingBy Robert GreenwayFor me; studying; expanding; and writing about ecopsychology; this book is a treasure. Though it is painfully complex at times; and one must love music and philosophy to "get it"; it can serve as a primer to balance the current hegemony of science with an ancient and avant garde Mode of Knowing that reveals aspects of the human-nature relationship found nowhere else. If youve long suspected that music is indeed a learning and discovery experience; this could be a great source.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Rhythm in the Key of Merleau-PontyBy StreetlightReaderPhilosophy has long had an association with deep thoughtrsquo;. Only rarely; however; has thought of depth itself been taken up as a theme in its own regard. To those of us lucky enough to stumble upon Jessica Wiskusrsquo;s new book however; itrsquo;s precisely the fathoms of thought that are here plumbed in a manner equal to the grandeur long promised by philosophy. Although taking the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty as its point of departure; The Rhythm of Thought extends itself beyond mere exposition; inventing its own plane of thought and bringing concepts to life though art; literature and music in as vivid a manner as one could dare to hope for.Through her encounters with the art of Ceacute;zanne; the compositions of Debussy; and the literary creations of Proust; Wiskus shows how depth - the depth of time as memory and promise; the depth of space as voluminousness and movement - plays an integral role in our being-with-the-world. Space; no longer a flat expanse set out in front of us in geometric smoothness; and time; no longer a punctuated instant deprived of its own dimensionality; are both here wrought in their lsquo;thicknessrsquo; and latency - are given lsquo;fleshrsquo;; or rather - rhythm. Taking up Merleau-Pontyrsquo;s rethinking of lsquo;essencesrsquo; as not merely idealisations that exist outside of space and time; Wiskus shows exactly what it would mean to speak of a lsquo;carnal essencersquo;; an essence as much sensate as ideal; one lsquo;ofrsquo; the world and not lsquo;beyond itrsquo;.No doubt Irsquo;m being slightly elliptic here; but precisely one of the strengths of Wiskusrsquo;s writing is the way in which it stages these abstractions in the context of brilliantly illuminated discussions of artistic practice. Turning to Ceacute;zannersquo;s use of line and color; Debussyrsquo;s invocations of silence; and Proutrsquo;s repetition of literary motifs; Wiskus makes concrete the often obscure and poetically roving ideas of Merleau-Ponty. Still; as I said before; this isnrsquo;t so much a book lsquo;aboutrsquo; Merleau-Ponty than it is a book conducted in the Merleau-Pontyian key. In the chapters on Debussy in particular; Wiskus brings to bear her considerable technical musical knowledge in order to extend the very few scattered remarks that Merleau-Ponty made on music in his lifetime. Quite simply; as a work of creativity; depth; and clarity; The Rhythm of Thought is a triumph of philosophical writing.