A Feast in Time of Plague
A Feast in Time of Plague is an 1830 play by Aleksandr Pushkin. The plot concerns a banquet in which the central figure taunts death with a toast "And so, O Plague, we hail thy reign!". The story is based on Act 1 of John Wilson's play "The City of Plague".
The play was published in 1830 as one of four Little Tragedies together with The Stone Guest ; Mozart and Salieri and The Miserly Knight. All four of these plays were set as one act operas by Russian composers; Dargomyzhsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, and for the Feast, Cesar Cui.
