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.

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.

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

Young Chekhov

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571313035
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
Young Chekhov contains a trilogy of plays by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, written as he emerged as the greatest playwright of the late nineteenth century. The three works, Platanov, Ivanov and The Seagull, in contemporary adaptations by David Hare, will be staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2015.

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'.

Chekhov Plays

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840226171
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
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.

Chekhov

Author:
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1476843139
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Despite the abundant variety of Chekhov translations available in bookstores and libraries American directors and actors have sought out these versions by Jean-Claude van Itallie to make them the most often performed renditions on the American stage today. This edition includes The Seagull Uncle Vanya Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.

Understanding Chekhov

Author: Donald Rayfield
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299163143
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet because his work is subtle and understated, we need help to understand him. Chekhov can be (as his friends complained) the most elusive of writers, and one who appears capable of having two opposite views and opposite intentions simultaneously. Donald Rayfield, one of the world's foremost Chekhov scholars, reveals the layers of meaning on which the stories and plays are built. All Chekhov's important works are studied: we see how closely the two genres are connected and gain insight into Chekhov's rapid development over his brief twenty years of creative life, from medical student supplementing his income by writing comic stories, to father of twentieth-century drama and narrative prose.

Chekhov: The Essential Plays

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0375761349
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain—are Chekhov’s four essential masterpieces for the theater.

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.