A Feast in Time of Plague

A Feast in Time of Plague is an 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin. The plot concerns a banquet in which the central figure taunts death with a toast "And so, O Plague, we hail thy reign!". The story is based on 4th scene of Act 1 of John Wilson's play The City of Plague.
The play was written in 1830 and published in 1832 as one of four Little Tragedies together with The Stone Guest ; Mozart and Salieri and The Miserly Knight. All four of these plays were set as one act operas by Russian composers; Dargomyzhsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, and for the Feast, César Cui.