The Plays of Anton Chekhov

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060928751
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
These critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor. Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates Chekhov's entire theatrical canon, rescuing the humor "lost" in most academic translations while respecting the historical context and original social climate. Schmidt's translations of Chekhov have been successfully staged all over the U.S. by such theatrical directors as Lee Strasberg, Elizabeth Swados, Peter Sellars and Robert Wilson. Critics have hailed these translations as making Chekhov fully accessible to American audiences. They are also accurate -- Schmidt has been described as "the gold standard in Russian-English translation" by Michael Holquist of the Russian department at Yale University.

Two Plays

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description

Chekhov

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Curt Columbus endows these timeless dramas Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard with dialogue that is faithful to the russian original but dazzlingly attuned to contemporary audiences.

Chekhov's Plays

Author: Richard Gilman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300072563
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
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.

Three Sisters

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.

Chekhov for the Stage

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810110489
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
While the influence of Chekhov in modern theater worldwide, and especially in America, has been immense, translations into English have tended to be too literary and have not communicated the full emotional power and precise attention to detail of Chekhov's Russian. Milton Ehre began translating Chekhov's plays to provide professional theaters with performance texts that capture the feel and rhythms of spoken, rather than written, language. Chekhov for the Stage is the first publication of his revised versions of The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Sea Gull. Ehre's sensitive renderings of these classics make this volume the translation of choice for performers and directors, teachers, and the general reading public.

Chekhov

Author: Антон Павлович Чехов
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780451527769
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Ivanov * The Sea Gull * Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters * The Cherry Orchard Newly repackaged, here are the five masterpieces by one of the world's greatest playwrights, in translation by Ann Dunnigan. As Robert Brustein declares in the foreword to this edition: "in the modern theater...there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role."

Chekhov Four Plays

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854598455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
This is a collection of four plays from Chekhov - 'The Seagull', 'Uncle Vanya', 'Three Sisters' and 'The Cherry Orchard'.

Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780848825751
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Five Plays by Anton Chekhov

Author: Libby Appel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615874302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
New Versions by Libby Appel From Literal Translations by Allison Horsley