This author wrote a scene in which a character's introduction receives the response "I've had a bite to eat too" because the character's name, "Yaichnitsa," means "omelette." That scene comes from a play by this author in which Kochkaryov's obsessive but incompetent matchmaking results in Agafya being abandoned by Podkolyosin. This author of Marriage wrote a play whose final scene features an enraged man shouting "Who are you laughing at? Laugh at yourselves!" at the audience. Characters in that play by this man include
This author wrote a scene in which a character's introduction receives the response "I've had a bite to eat too" because the character's name, "Yaichnitsa," means "omelette." That scene comes from a play by this author in which Kochkaryov's obsessive but incompetent matchmaking results in Agafya being abandoned by Podkolyosin. This author of Marriage wrote a play whose final scene features an enraged man shouting "Who are you laughing at? Laugh at yourselves!" at the audience. Characters in that play by this man include a judge who keeps his hunting equipment in his courtroom named (*) Lyapkin-Tyapkin and a pair of squires named Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, who mistake the recently- arrived Khlestakov for the title bureaucrat. In a story by this author, the the title object comes to life after being found in a loaf of bread by the barber Yakovlevich. For 10 points, name this Ukrainian-born author of The Inspector-General and the short story "The Nose."
This author wrote a scene in which a character's introduction receives the response "I've had a bite to eat too" because the character's name, "Yaichnitsa," means "omelette.
Nikolai (Vasilievich) Gogol