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Chekhov Plays Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Chekhov Plays By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Chekhov Plays by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov


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Summary

Formerly part of the "World Dramatists" series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, "World Classics".

Chekhov Plays Summary

Chekhov Plays: "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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 obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures and The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way to the new. Haunting and elusive, these four great late masterpieces have found in Michael Frayn a translator who perfectly captures their delicate balance of the tragic and the absurd. The volume also contains four of Chekhov's early short 'vaudevilles' as well as a substantial introduction by Michael Frayn."The critical clamour for a Complete Chekhov in Michael Frayn's translation has borne fruit" (Sunday Times)

About Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Michael Frayn's work for the stage includes Alphabetical Order, Make and Break and Noises Off, all of which received Best Comedy of the Year awards, while Benefactors was named Best Play of the Year. His other works include Democracy (National Theatre and West End prior to Broadway) and Copenhagen (winner of numerous awards including the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Best Play Awards 1998). He has translated Chekhov's four last plays and is also a novelist and recipient of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel for Spies.

Table of Contents

The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard

Additional information

GOR001321604
9780413181602
041318160X
Chekhov Plays: "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1988-07-14
464
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