![]() Hlestakov agrees, unaware that he is mistaken for another man.Īct 3 is set in the governor’s home. ![]() Amid the confusion, the governor invites Hlestakov to stay at his home. Hlestakov is taken to see the prison, which makes him think he is being arrested for failing to pay his bill at the inn. The governor offers to give Hlestakov a tour of the various governmental intuitions in town. When the governor enters the room, he assumes Hlestakov to be the government inspector. ![]() The servant Ossip explains that the twenty-three-year-old Hlestakov is a low-ranking government agent who lost all of his money gambling and cannot afford to pay for two weeks of food and lodging at the inn. Act 2 is set inside Hlestakov’s room at the inn. When the governor departs for the inn to meet the person he suspects is the inspector general, his wife, Anna, and daughter, Marya, inquire about the inspector. Petersburg arrived two weeks prior and is staying at the town’s inn. As the officials scramble to cover up their corruption, landowning siblings Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky storm in to inform the officials that a suspicious person from St. The governor frantically orders the officials to do whatever is necessary to cover up the corrupt misdeeds and unethical practices that have taken place in town for years. The officials are terrified at such a prospect. The governor tells his fellow officials that the inspector will arrive “incognito” with “secret instructions” to evaluate the local government. The Governor has invited the judge, school superintendent, leader of charities, town police officer, and local doctor to inform them that a government inspector is en route from St. Act 1 is set inside the governor’s house, where several government officials from town have gathered for a meeting. The play takes place in a small Russian province during the 1830s. The story has also been adapted into several operas and television episodes. In 1860, Fyodor Dostoyevsky played the postman Shepkin in a charity performance of the play. The play has been translated several times across various mediums, including more than a dozen film and theater adaptations, including the most well-known film adaptations, The Inspector General (1949), starring Danny Kaye, and Waiting for Guffman (1997), directed by Christopher Guest. A direct rebuke of the political corruption of Imperialist Russia, the play thematically pokes fun at human avarice, foolishness, and misunderstanding. Set in a small Russian town in the 1830s, the five-act story follows Hlestakov, a foolish gambler and low-ranking government agent who embodies irresponsibility, frivolity, and absent-mindedness. Also known as The Inspector General, the play is a comedy of errors based on a supposed anecdote relayed to Gogol by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Originally published in 1836 and later revised in 1842, The Government Inspector is a satirical stage play by Russian-Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol.
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