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Mednye lby (Brazen Foreheads)
Brazen Foreheads
also: Медные лбы, Brazen Foreheads
A play by the French playwright Eugene Scribe, translated into Russian; the Korsh Theater actor N. V. Svetlov wished to stage it for his 1888 benefit performance, pending Pleshcheyev's confirmation of no rights objection or legal obstacle. Not to be confused with the identically-titled Nikolai Leikin humor-sketch collection.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 1 October 1888. Moscow. §3 Scribe's "Brazen Foreheads"
"Медные лбы" ("Brazen Foreheads," literally "brazen/copper foreheads," i.e. brazen or shameless persons), a play by the French playwright Eugene Scribe, existing here in a Russian translation that Pleshcheyev apparently holds the rights to or otherwise controls. Distinct from the identically titled Nikolai Leikin humor-sketch collection "Медные лбы" that Chekhov asks Leikin to send him in -- same Russian title, unrelated work and author.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 4 October 1888. Moscow. §5 "Медные лбы"
"Brass Foreheads" is Pleshcheyev's Russian translation of Eugene Scribe's play, the same title Chekhov wrote to Pleshcheyev about three days earlier on behalf of the Korsh Theater actor N. V. Svetlov; this section continues that same theatrical-business thread. Distinct from Ivan Shcheglov's own play discussed later in this letter ("The Summer Husband,") and from the identically-titled Nikolai Leikin sketch collection -- not the same work despite the shared title.