In a play by this author, a man asks for his valuable English mirror to be brought so he can check if he's growing grey hair, and an admiral goes on about the beautiful girls he saw when his fleet was stationed in Sicily, where they speak French.
In a play by this author, a man asks for his valuable English mirror to be brought so he can check if he's growing grey hair, and an admiral goes on about the beautiful girls he saw when his fleet was stationed in Sicily, where they speak French. This author's bitter dialogue "Leaving the Theater After the Presentation of a New Comedy" stars the guffawing audience members at the premiere of his most famous play, which ends with its characters suddenly freezing in terror. A man whose name translates to "egg" or "omelette" courts (*) Agafya in this author's play Marriage. The servant Osip procures a carriage and beats a hasty retreat with his master in a play by this author, in which Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky travel to an inn with the mayor of an unnamed town. For 10 points, name this Russian author who wrote about Khlestakov's deception in The Inspector General.
In a play by this author, a man asks for his valuable English mirror to be brought so he can check if he's growing grey hair, and an admiral goes on about the beautiful girls he saw when his fleet was stationed in Sicily, where they speak French.
Nikolai [Vasilievich] {Gogol}