Fonvizin, Denis Ivanovich | Marvin Kantor (essay date 1973)
Marvin Kantor (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: Kantor, Marvin. “Fonvizin and Holberg: A Comparison of The Brigadier and Jean de France.” Canadian American Slavic Studies 7, no. 4 (1973): 475-84.
[In the following essay, Kantor argues that the influence of Danish dramatist Ludvig Holberg's Jean de France on The Brigadier has been much exaggerated by critics. Holberg's play, Kantor maintains, is a satire with one theme, one hero, and one target, while Fonvizin's work has several themes, heroes, and targets, and is distinctly Russian in its situation, language, and concerns.]
Among the foreign authors whose works enjoyed considerable popularity in Russia was the Danish playwright, Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754). A number of his works appeared in the 1759 edition of the journal, The Industrious Bee (Trudoliubivaia pchela), and his plays Don Ranudo de Colibrados (Gordost' i bednost'), Henrich and...
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