Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!grass From: grass@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: More on Shaffer vs. Pushkin Message-ID: <10000102@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 10:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.10000102 Posted: Thu Oct 11 10:07:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 07:07:11 EDT References: <411@cbosgd.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:cbosgd:-41100:uiucdcsb:10000102:000:799 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!grass Oct 11 09:07:00 1984On my way to a MS degree in Russian, I took a course on Pushkin. We discussed the play "Mozart and Salieri" and its origins in that class. It seems that the theme of the play is semi-legendary. That is to say, the idea that Salieri murdered Mozart out of professional jealousy was part of the background gossip of the early 19th century. I can't give you a reference for that, but I do remember the professor saying it. I don't think you could accuse "Amadeus" of being plagarized any more than you can accuse Pushkin of plagarizing "Don Juan" in his version "The Stone Guest". (Puskin only wrote 4 plays in all. The other two: "Boris Gudonov" (Source of the Opera) and "A Feast in Time of Plague" (a very odd little play)). -- Judy Grass University of Illinois-- Urbana