A play ought to be written in which people should come and go, dine, talk of the weather or play cards... because that is what happens in real life - Anton ChekhovChekhov demolished the conventions of traditional Russian theatre and created something new that proved hugely influential. His aim was to create a slice of life with naturalistic settings, mundane conversation and acting that brought the everyday on stage.The Seagull, 1895, is the first of his four major plays. The four main characters, guests on a tranquil estate in the Russian countryside, are Nina, a beautiful young actress who can`t act; Konstantin, a talentless playwright, and his mother Irina Arkadina, a fading theatrical diva; finally, there is successful writer of...

ISBN: 9781838575793
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2023

As a playwright Chekhov was subversive, even revolutionary, breaking away from the prevailing fashions of contemporary theatre to create an exhilarating new form of drama. He created many plays without heroes and villains, and focused instead on the individual grappling with a moral dilemma. In place of the happy ending came ambiguity, in place of dramatic conflict came the solitary quest. Shocking to his first audiences, his plays are equally provocative today. A new translation by Peter Carson with an introduction by Richard Gilman.

ISBN: 978-0-14-044733-0
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Includes such plays as "The Seagull" and "Three Sisters", with universal themes of humor and the general lifelong struggles experienced by the middle class.

ISBN: 978-0-375-76134-8
Дата выхода: август 2011

ISBN: 0-451-52776-3
Издательство: Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Chekhov`s worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative Oxford Chekhov, in Ronald Hingley`s acclaimed translation. Hingley has also written an introduction specifically for this volume in which he provides a detailed history of Chekhov`s involvement in the theater and an assessment of his accomplishment as a dramatist.

ISBN: 978-0-19-953669-6
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011

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. He takes from everyday life themes of frustration which apply to us all - the difficulty of carving out a happy existence, the problems of love, the fading of hope, the universal feeling that time passes and we never quite get things right. This seems pessimistic, and yet Chekhov claimed he was writing comedy. Readers, actors and directors must decide for themselves which way to play these pieces. They are full of sadness, but a sadness...

ISBN: 978-1-84022-617-1
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010

Here in one compact and modestly priced edition are the celebrated Russian playwright`s most popular works. In addition to five full-length plays—The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Ivanov—this anthology features five of Anton Chekhov`s one-act comedies: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal. Chekhov`s taste for vaudeville shows and French farces influenced his comic one-acts, which are widely regarded as masterpieces of the genre. His greatest fame rests upon his full-length tragedies, which focus on mood and characterization rather than plot. Chekhov considered his famous tragedies a form of comic satire—with the bleakness of life in czarist Russia at the...

ISBN: 978-0-486-46560-9
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

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."

ISBN: 9780451530370
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2019

English translations of Chekhov`s classic plays by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor. Because of Paul Schmidt`s expertise in both the theater and Russia, these translations preserve the social context of Chekhov`s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THREE SISTERS, THE SEAGULL, UNCLE VANYA, and other works, while restoring the vitality and humor that are often lost in academic translations.

ISBN: 0-06-092875-1
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama, including The Anniversary, a frenetic, behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on in a bank; An Unwilling Martyr, a humorous recital of an overburdened man`s chores and obligations; as well as The Wedding, The Bear and The Proposal. Immensely affordable edition for students, general readers and amateur and pressional theater groups.

ISBN: 0-486-40887-6
Издательство: Dover
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8751-5772-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8752-3228-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8752-3637-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1860 – 15 July [O.S. 2 July] 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and...

ISBN: 978-6-1307-5803-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This study examines temporalities in dramatic works by three playwrights: Anton Chekhov, Alexander Vvedensky, and Vaclav Havel. These playwrights, whose works have heretofore been viewed as unrelated, all engage time in ways that make it the central preoccupation of their plays, both thematically and in terms of structure. Chekhov’s drama is surprisingly Modernist in this regard, and the affinities between his Three Sisters and later plays by Vvedensky and Havel suggest a shared approach to drama as a genre uniquely capable of presenting and critiquing temporal constructs. Drawing on philosophical, scientific, and historical sources (Bergson’s philosophy, the development of Greenwich Mean Time, the Einsteinian Revolution, French...

ISBN: 978-3-8364-3924-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov`s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov`s life and framed by an account of Malcolm`s journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Yalta. She writes of Chekhov`s childhood, his relationships, his travels, his early success, and his self-imposed exile - always with an eye to connecting them to themes and characters in his work. Lovers of Chekhov as well as those new to his work will be transfixed by Reading Chekhov.

ISBN: 978-0-375-76106-5
Дата выхода: август 2011

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today`s top writers and scholars. Biographies of the authors. Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events. Footnotes and endnotes. Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work. Comments by other famous authors. Study questions to challenge the reader`s...

ISBN: 978-1-59308-003-7
Дата выхода: январь 2013

The Shooting Party wraps a story of concealed love and fatal jealousy into a classic murder mystery. When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. But suspicion descends upon virtually everyone, for, as we soon learn, the victim was at the center of a tangled web of relationshipsawith her elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate himself. One of Anton Chekhovas earliest experiments in fiction, this short, riveting novel prefigures the mature style he would develop in his magnificent stories and plays.

ISBN: 978-0-14-044898-6
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011

Classic of world drama concerns the passing of the old semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. The work also showcases Chekhov`s rich sensitivities as an observer of human nature. This inexpensive, high-quality edition, reprinted from a standard edition of the play, will provide theater students and any lover of great drama with a reliable text of this masterpiece.

ISBN: 0-486-26682-6
Издательство: Dover
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

In this tragic masterpiece portraying the inner anguish of a tormented artist who burns with unrequited love, the Russian playwright uses the death of a sea gull to symbolize the ruined hopes and dreams of his characters. Universally acclaimed as a prototype of twentieth-century drama, the play pioneered a new form of impressionistic realism

ISBN: 0-486-40656-3
Издательство: Dover
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fyodor Fyodorovich Komissarzhevsky (23 May 1882 - 17 April 1954) or Theodore Komisarjevsky, as he is better known in the West, was a leading Russian theatrical director and designer of the 20th century, particularly notable for his groundbreaking productions of plays by Chekhov and Shakespeare. Born in Venice, Komisarjevsky was born into theatre, as his father Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky was a high-profile opera singer who befriended Tchaikovsky, and as his sister, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, was a pre-eminent Russian actress of her generation. Originally interested in architecture, Komisarjevsky turned to...

ISBN: 978-6-1338-0670-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Luca Zingaretti (born November 11, 1961) is an Italian actor, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in Il commissario Montalbano mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri. Zingaretti is a native of Rome. He is the older brother of politician Nicola Zingaretti. Zingaretti studied at the prestigious National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D' Amico, graduating in 1984, and began his acting career in the theatre, often working with director Luca Ronconi, appearing in such diverse plays as Chekhov's Three Sisters, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Martin Sherman's Bent. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

ISBN: 978-6-1340-5982-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow premiere in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. Uncle Vanya is unique among Chekhov's major plays because it is essentially an extensive reworking of his own play published a decade earlier, The Wood Demon. By elucidating the specific changes Chekhov made during the revision process -- these include reducing the cast-list from almost two-dozen down to a lean nine, changing the climactic suicide of the The Wood Demon into the famous failed homicide of Uncle Vanya, and altering the original happy ending into a more...

ISBN: 978-6-1318-1919-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Soulpepper Theatre Company is a Toronto, Ontario-based theatre company dedicated to presenting classic plays. Soulpepper was founded in 1998 by twelve Toronto artists who dreamed of a company that would produce lesser known theatrical classics. Soulpepper has since become an important part of Toronto's theatre scene. It often presents Canadian interpretations of works by such noted playwrights as Harold Pinter, Thornton Wilder, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Anton Chekhov. The current artistic director is Albert Schultz. Laszlo Marton, artistic director of the Vigszinhaz in Budapest, Hungary and one of the...

ISBN: 978-6-1347-2211-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Seagull" (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. "The Seagull" was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. As with the rest of Chekhov's full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully-developed characters. In contrast to the melodrama of the mainstream theatre of the 19th century, lurid actions (such as Konstantin's suicide...

ISBN: 978-6-1327-8750-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011