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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Anton Chekhov’s Selected Plays

Contents

  • Preface
  • A Note on the Translations
  • A Guide to Transliteration and Pronunciation
  • Phonetic Pronunciation of the Names in the Plays
  • General Introduction
  • The Texts of Anton Chekhov’s Selected Plays
    • Preface to The Bear
    • The Bear
    • Variants to The Bear
    • Preface to Ivanov
    • Ivanov
    • Variants to Ivanov
    • Preface to The Wedding
    • The Wedding The Wedding
    • Variants to
    • Preface to The Celebration
    • The Celebration
    • Variants to The Celebration
    • Preface to The Seagull
    • The Seagull
    • Variants to The Seagull
    • Preface to Uncle Vanya
    • Uncle Vanya
    • Variants
    • Preface to Three Sisters
    • Three Sisters
    • Variants
    • Preface to The Cherry Orchard
    • The Cherry Orchard
    • Variants
  • Chekhov’s Letters
  • Criticism
  • THE PLAYS IN GENERAL
    • George Calderon, An Introduction to Tchekhof
    • Naum Berkovsky, Chekhov, Story Writer and Dramatist
    • Boris Zingerman, Space in Chekhov’s Plays
    • Jovan Hristi_, Time in Chekhov: The Inexorable and the Ironic
  • SPECIFIC PLAYS
    • Z. Paperny, The Vaudevilles
    • Vladmir Kataev, A Play about Nonunderstanding: Ivanov
    • Patrice Pavis, The Originality of The Seagull and Its Context
    • Lev Shestov, Creation from the Void: Ivanov
    • Maria Deppermann, Uncle Vanya
    • Jurij Striedter, Drama as a game of reflected Expectations: Chekhov’s Three Sisters
    • Andrey Bely, The Cherry Orchard
  • DIRECTORS ON CHEKHOV
    • Konstantin Stanislavsky, Second Thoughts on The Seagull
    • Vsevolod Meyerhold, The Naturalistic Theatre and the Theatre of Mood
    • Otomar Krej_a, Chekhov’s Plays
    • Giorgio Strehler, Notes on The Cherry Orchard
    • Jean-Louis Barrault, Why The Cherry Orchard?
    • Peter Brook, The Cherry Orchard, an Immense Vitality
    • Peter Stein, My Chekhov
    • Anatoly Éfros, Everything to Do with Chekhov
    • Mark Rozovsky, On Uncle Vanya
  • Anton Chekhov: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography