At the end of Act 3 of this play, that character starts a rumors that the protagonist has gone (*) mad, which other people then attribute to a gunshot wound or reading Voltaire.
In this play, a henpecked husband admits that the has been practicing the same flute sonata for five years, shortly before his wife orders him to button up his coat, because it's cold. After hearing the country's capital city praised, one character in this play recalls a man who ran a travelling children's ballet company but sold the children to pay his debts. The main female character in this play faints after watching through a window as the man she loves falls off his horse and breaks his arm. At the end of Act 3 of this play, that character starts a rumors that the protagonist has gone (*) mad, which other people then attribute to a gunshot wound or reading Voltaire. The colonel Skalozub is hungry for promotion in this play, in which Famusov's daughter is falsely courted by his secretary Molchalin, who doesn't really love her. For 10 points, Sofia Pavlovna rejects her childhood sweetheart, the idealistic Chatskii, in what satirical verse drama by Alexander Griobyedov?  
In this play, a henpecked husband admits that the has been practicing the same flute sonata for five years, shortly before his wife orders him to button up his coat, because it's cold.
Woe from Wit [or Gore ot Uma; or The Mischief of Being Clever; or The Woes of Wit; or Wit Works Woe]