Boris Godunov (play) opera, "Boris Godunov" (1874), is based on this play. Having finished the play, Pushkin famously wrote to his friend Pyotr Vyazemsky: "What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!" . Pushkin wrote of the play: "The study of Shakespeare, Karamzin, and our old chronicles gave me the idea of clothing in dramatic forms one of the most dramatic epochs of our history. Not disturbed by any other influence, I imitated Shakespeare in his broad and free depictions of characters, in the simple and careless combination of plots; I followed Karamzin in the clear development of events; I tried to
The Ballad of Little Joe The Ballad of Little Joe The Ballad of Little Joe is a 2003 American computer-animated western film produced by Big Idea Productions and released theatrically by Classic Media on August 5, 2003. It is the twentieth episode of VeggieTales. The story is based after 1993's "The Ballad of Little Jo", which came out ten years before. It was directed by Tim Hodge, produced by David Pitts and written by Robert G. Lee, the film stars the voices of Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki, Jim Poole, Jacquelyn Ritz, Mike Sage (in his final acting role), Lisa Vischer, and Tim Hodge. Bob narrates