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''Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man'' ((ロシア語:На всякого мудреца довольно простоты); translit. Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty) is a five-act comedy by Aleksandr Ostrovsky.〔Brockett and Hildy (2003, 370). The play's title has been rendered in English in many different ways in the critical literature, including: ''The Diary of a Scoundrel'', which Brockett and Hildy give as an alternative; or simply ''The Scoundrel'', in Gerould (1974, 73); ''Even Wise Men Err'' in Sealey Rahman (199, 174); ''Even a Wise Man Stumbles'', in Magarshack (1950, 309).〕 The play offers a satirical treatment of bigotry and charts the rise of a double-dealer who manipulates other people's vanities.〔Banham (1998, 829), Brockett and Hildy (2003, 370), and Gerould (1974, 73).〕 It is Ostrovsky's best-known comedy in the West.〔Banham (1998, 829) and Brockett and Hildy (2003, 370).〕 ==Production history== 1868 – Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg. 1868 – Maly Theatre, Moscow. 1885 – Korsh Theatre, Moscow. The seminal Russian theatre director Konstantin Stanislavsky directed the play with his Moscow Art Theatre.〔Benedetti (1999, 212, 387).〕 The production opened on .〔 Stanislavski played General Krutitsky〔 and Kachalov played Glumov. A production of the play was the most significant of the early theatre work of the Russian Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein.〔Rudnitsky (1988, 96).〕 The playwright Sergei Tretyakov transformed Ostrovsky's text into a revue (what Eisenstein called a "montage of attractions"), which was entitled ''Wiseman'' (''Mudrets'').〔Gerould (1974, 73–74), Kleberg (1980, 81), and Rudnitsky (1988, 96).〕 Eisenstein and Tretyakov's approach was part of the Russian avant-garde Futurist movement known as "Eccentricism," which sought the "circusisation" of the theatre.〔Kleberg (1980, 78–82), Kolocotroni, Goldman, and Taxidou (1998, 295–297), and Rudnitsky (1988, 94–96).〕 In celebration of the centennial of Ostrovsky's birth, the production opened in April 1923.〔The sources offer different dates for the opening: Gerould gives 16 April while Kleberg gives 26 April; see Gerould (1974, 73) and Kleberg (1980, 80–81).〕 It was staged by the First Workers' Theatre of the Prolekult in its theatre in an ornate mansion on Vozdvizhenka Street, with a cast that included Maxim Shtraukh, Ivan Pyryev, and Grigori Aleksandrov.〔Gerould (1974, 74), Kleberg (1980, 80–81), and Rudnitsky (1988, 96).〕 Eisenstein drew on popular theatre techniques from farce and the ''commedia dell'arte'' in his staging, which sought to make every metaphor concrete and physical; he wrote:〔Gerould (1974, 74).〕 A screening of Eisenstein's first film, entitled ''Glumov's Diary'', concluded the performance.〔 Writing in 1928, Eisenstein explained that he had aimed "to achieve a revolutionary modernization of Ostrovsky, i.e., a social re-evaluation of his characters, seeing them as they might appear today."〔Quoted by Gerould (1974, 73).〕 Boris Nirenburg and A. Remizova directed an adaptation of the play for television in 1971.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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