Two Plays
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Chekhov
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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.
The Plays of Anton Chekhov
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 1998-04-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0060928751
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.
Chekhov's Plays
Author : Richard Gilman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300072563
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 for the Stage
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 1992-12-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810110489
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.
Five Comic One-Act Plays
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0486112063
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.
Three Sisters
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
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.
7 Short Farces
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822216452
Book Description
THE STORIES: SWAN SONG. An actor wakes up with a hangover, locked in the theater after the evening's performance. He is terrified when he thinks a ghost appears, but it is only the theater's prompter. The actor tells him stories of his life and als
Chekhov on Theatre
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623160319
Book Description
Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles and in his own letters even before he began writing plays. Collected here in translation, these writings reveal Chekhov's instinctive curiosity about the way theatre works-- and his concerns about how best to realize his own intentions as a playwright.--Publisher.
Best Plays
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Book Description
Chekhov's reputation as a founder of modern drama rests on the four plays in this volume. So revolutionary were these plays in their simplicity and naturalness of form, subject, and dialogue, that to produce them required a new school of acting, and a new Russian theatre. Immediately popular in Russia, Chekhov's plays soon were produced all over Europe. So purelyoriginal that they could not be imitated, these plays, with Isben's, laid to test the outmoded forms of European theatre, opening it to innovation in all areas. Today they are as popular as ever. -- From publisher's description.
