Author : Richard Gilman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300072563
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.
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
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.
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781854598455
This is a collection of four plays from Chekhov - 'The Seagull', 'Uncle Vanya', 'Three Sisters' and 'The Cherry Orchard'.
Author : Dead Centre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1783197587
‘I’m having absolutely nothing to do with the theatre or the human race. They can all go to hell.’ – Anton Chekhov During the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Maria Chekhov, Anton’s sister, placed many of her late brother’s manuscripts and papers in a safety deposit box in Moscow. In 1921 Soviet scholars opened the box, and discovered a play. The title page was missing. The play they found has too many characters, too many themes, too much action. All in all, it’s generally dismissed as unstageable. Like life. A new play by Dead Centre, creators of the OBIE / Fringe First winning LIPPY.
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0486112063
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.
Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780299163143
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.
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Drama
ISBN :
'The Seagull' is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. It is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. The play dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev.
Author : Антон Павлович Чехов
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780451527769
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."
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781840226171
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.
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 1998-04-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0060928751
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.
