Chekhov's Plays

This seems pessimistic, and yet Chekhov claimed he was writing comedy. Readers, actors and directors must decide for themselves which way to play t...

This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at th...

Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of "Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes" (Hackett), this title features Carnicke's translation of a play ...

The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of ...

This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is ...

Reducere. DescriptionMaxim Gorky said that no one understood "the tragedy of life's trivialities" as clearly as Anton Chekhov, widely considered the father o...

Reducere. Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popular...

For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoev...

Contributor(s): Author: Anton ChekhovForeword by: Robert BrusteinAfterword by: Rosamund BartlettAnton ChekhovThe Major Plays Ivanov * The Sea Gull ...

Reducere. This collection includes seven short plays based on Anton Chekhov's short stories: THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, VINT by David Mamet, DRO...

Reducere. "Oh, good God, " he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..."'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exq...

Description'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tra...

Reducere. This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessi...

Age range 3+ Summer is here. Put your school shoes away, The long, lazy days can begin. Mangoes and magpies, municipal pools... Take a deep breath ...

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Reducere. DescriptionAnton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among t...