![]() Some literary scholars, such as the Formalist Iurii Tynianov, have focused on the historical prototypes for the play’s characters. Many have viewed the work as a Decembrist manifesto and its hero Chatskii as the most articulate spokesman of that movement. Soviet critics would later canonize this reading of Woe from Wit in the 20th century. The progressive critics of the mid-to-late 19th century, such as Belinskii and Dobroliubov, praised the work as one of the first sobering depictions of Russian reality, a tradition that, according to them, was continued by Pushkin and Gogol’. In the first few years of the play’s circulation, it sparked debate between conservative critics and Decembrist-Romantic writers about its depiction of Moscow society. In its nearly 200-year history, scholarship on Griboedov’s play Woe From Wit has been dominated by ideological readings.
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