A Feast in Time of Plague

Play by Alexander Pushkin

A Feast in Time of Plague (Russian: «Пир во время чумы», romanized: Pir vo vremya chumy) is an 1830 play by Alexander 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.

References

Pushkin, Alexander; Werth, Alexander (1927). "A Feast in the City of the Plague". The Slavonic Review. 6 (16): 178–184. JSTOR 4202146.

Alexander Pushkin

Narrative poems

Ruslan and Ludmila (1820)
The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1820–1822)
The Gabrieliad (1821)
The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1823)
The Gypsies (1827)
Poltava (1829)
The Bronze Horseman (1833)

Short poems

"I Loved You" (1830)
"To the Slanderers of Russia" (1831)

Verse fairy tales

The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1830)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1831)
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (1833)
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (1833)
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (1834)

Verse novel

Eugene Onegin (1833)

Prose

The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1830)
- "The Shot"
- "The Blizzard"
The Moor of Peter the Great (1827)
Dubrovsky (1833)
The Queen of Spades (1834)
A Journey to Arzrum (1835–1836)
The Captain's Daughter (1836)