suggested by Chekhov's letter to his publisher friend Suvorin , from which Ivanov's character can be understood much better than from the play itself.4 Chronologically , it would be appropriate to turn now to Chekhov's second full ...

Author: Harvey Pitcher

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 9780520363427

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Index Drama / Literature play In this eloquent and insightful book. Tolstoy , Leo , 2 , 16 , 44 , 185 Translations of Chekhov , xx - xxi Trees , 199 Troyat , Henri , 22 , 24 Turgenev , Ivan , 39 speeches in , 124-26 structure of ...

Author: Richard Gilman

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 0300072562

Category: Drama

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Eminent critic Richard Gilman examines each of Chekhov's full-length plays, showing how they relate to each other, to Chekhov's short stories, and to his life. Gilman places the plays in the context of Russian and European drama and the larger culture of the period, and the reasons behind the enduring power of these classic works.

Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their brilliant wit and understanding of the human condition.This volume contains work never previously translated, including ...

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393292923

Category: Drama

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"The most complete collection of the Russian playwright's repertoire."—Vogue This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their brilliant wit and understanding of the human condition.This volume contains work never previously translated, including the newly discovered farce The Power of Hypnotism, the first version of Ivanov, Chekhov's early humorous dialogues, and a description of lost plays and those Chekhov intended to write but never did.

This Theatre, whichhadonly just started, gave allof its strengths to Seagull–andthe scene changedbeyond recognition. Beforethis,the [contemporary] stage had been the barrier between Chekhov's plays andhis audience.

Author: and translated by Vera Gottlieb

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134286898

Category: Performing Arts

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The Moscow Art Theatre is still recognized as having more impact on modern theatre than any company in the world. This lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced facsimile edition of a Russian journal from 1914 documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced by the Moscow Art Theatre, including: *The Seagull, *Three Sisters *Uncle Vanya *Cherry Orchard *Ivanov. Edited by renowned theatre historian Vera Gottlieb, the volume also reproduces - for the first time in an English translation - introductions by Stanislavsky's collaborators Nemirovich-Danchenko and Efros. With 175 unique photographs, this is a significant contribution to our understanding of the origins of today's theatre.

Includes such plays as "The Seagull" and "Three Sisters," with universal themes of humor and the general lifelong struggles experienced by the middle class.

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: Modern Library

ISBN: UCSC:32106016641190

Category: Drama

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Includes such plays as "The Seagull" and "Three Sisters," with universal themes of humor and the general lifelong struggles experienced by the middle class.

Reproduction of the original: Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Chekhov

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

ISBN: 9783732651375

Category: Fiction

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Reproduction of the original: Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Chekhov

Translated, with an introductory essay, by Elisaveta Fen, and with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer.

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

ISBN: 184022617X

Category: Russian drama

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Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, calling for actors with intelligence and common sense rather than a dramatic voice or histrionic skills.

So too Harvey Pitcher argues that the fundamental characteristic of the mature Chekhov play is its foregrounding of feelings and emotions ( The Chekhov Play : A New Interpretation ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1985 ] ...

Author: Michael C. Finke

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN: 0801443156

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only through the written record and across the distance of many decades. To apprehend Chekhov means seeing how Chekhov sees, and the author's remarkable vision is understood as deriving from his occupational or professional training and identity. But we have failed to register, let alone understand, just what a central concern for Chekhov himself, and how deeply problematic, were precisely issues of seeing and being seen.--from the Introduction Michael C. Finke explodes a century of critical truisms concerning Chekhov's objective eye and what being a physician gave him as a writer in a book that foregrounds the deeply subjective and self-reflexive aspects of his fiction and drama. In exploring previously unrecognized seams between the author's life and his verbal art, Finke profoundly alters and deepens our understanding of Chekhov's personality and behaviors, provides startling new interpretations of a broad array of Chekhov's texts, and fleshes out Chekhov's simultaneous pride in his identity as a physician and devastating critique of turn-of-the-century medical practices and ideologies. Seeing Chekhov is essential reading for students of Russian literature, devotees of the short story and modern drama, and anyone interested in the intersection of literature, psychology, and medicine.

Plays included in this volume are The Three Sisters, The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear, A Tragedian on Spite of Himself, and The Cherry Orchard, On the High Road, and The Anniversary.

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: Standard Publications Incorporated

ISBN: 1604243805

Category: Fiction

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Chekhov was a Russian who wrote short stories and plays. Plays included in this volume are The Three Sisters, The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear, A Tragedian on Spite of Himself, and The Cherry Orchard, On the High Road, and The Anniversary. The historical content and humor of the era have been accurately translated in this work.

Five of Chekov's well-known plays express ways humans cope when trapped in their environment, revealing their weaknesses in the face of others' greed, and show how single affirmations remain in the midst of despair. Reissue.

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9780451530370

Category: Drama

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Five of Chekov's well-known plays express ways humans cope when trapped in their environment, revealing their weaknesses in the face of others' greed, and show how single affirmations remain in the midst of despair. Reissue.