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

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.

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.

Five Comic One-Act Plays

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112063
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81

Book Description
Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal. For students, general readers, and amateur and professional theater groups.

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

The Actor's Chekhov

Author: Jean Hackett
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description

New Poetics of Chekhov's Major Plays

Author: Harai Golomb
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 178284127X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
This text attempts to map the unique structure and meaning that comprise Chekhov's immensely rich artistic universe. The prime components of his theatrical technique and fictional world are explored to uncover the basic principles governing the Chekhov's universe.