Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
Stanislavski (left) and Kachalov (right)
in the Moscow Art Theatre production in 1910.
Written byAleksandr Ostrovsky
Date premiered13 November [O.S. 1 November] 1868
Original languageRussian
GenreComedy

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (Russian: На всякого мудреца довольно простоты; translit. Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty), sometimes published in English under the title Too Clever By Half, is a five-act comedy by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. The play offers a satirical treatment of bigotry and charts the rise of a double-dealer who manipulates other people's vanities. It is Ostrovsky's best-known comedy in the West.

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