The Complete Plays"The most complete collection of the Russian playwright's repertoire."—Vogue This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their brilliant wit and understanding of the human condition.This volume contains work never previously translated, including the newly discovered farce The Power of Hypnotism, the first version of Ivanov, Chekhov's early humorous dialogues, and a description of lost plays and those Chekhov intended to write but never did. |
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... Voinitsev pulls a dagger on Platonov, who disarms him with the shout, “Stand back!” and a torrent of rhetoric. Even with cuts, it was over twice the length of an ordinary play of the period. Chekhov took it to Mariya Yermolova, one of ...
... Voinitsev pulls a dagger on Platonov, who disarms him with the shout, “Stand back!” and a torrent of rhetoric. Even with cuts, it was over twice the length of an ordinary play of the period. Chekhov took it to Mariya Yermolova, one of ...
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... Voinitsev loses his estate through his own and his stepmother's extravagances; a deceased general looms over their lives as one will in Three Sisters. A bleak picture is drawn of fathers and sons on a moral level: Platonov's ...
... Voinitsev loses his estate through his own and his stepmother's extravagances; a deceased general looms over their lives as one will in Three Sisters. A bleak picture is drawn of fathers and sons on a moral level: Platonov's ...
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... VOINITSEV, General Voinitsev's son by his first marriage SOFYA YEGOROVNA, his wife PORFIRY SEMYONOVICH GLAGOLYEV SR. KIRILL PORFIRYEVICH GLAGOLYEV JR. GERASIM KUZMICH PETRIN PAVEL PETROVICH SHCHERBUK MARIYA YEFIMOVNA GREKOVA, a ...
... VOINITSEV, General Voinitsev's son by his first marriage SOFYA YEGOROVNA, his wife PORFIRY SEMYONOVICH GLAGOLYEV SR. KIRILL PORFIRYEVICH GLAGOLYEV JR. GERASIM KUZMICH PETRIN PAVEL PETROVICH SHCHERBUK MARIYA YEFIMOVNA GREKOVA, a ...
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... VOINITSEV. SCENE II The same, GLAGOLYEVSR. and VOINITSEV. GLAGOLYEV SR. (entering). That's the way it used to be, my dear Sergey Pavlovich. In that respect we, the setting suns, are better off and happier than you, the rising suns. Man ...
... VOINITSEV. SCENE II The same, GLAGOLYEVSR. and VOINITSEV. GLAGOLYEV SR. (entering). That's the way it used to be, my dear Sergey Pavlovich. In that respect we, the setting suns, are better off and happier than you, the rising suns. Man ...
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... VOINITSEV (yawns). Those were the days! TRILETSKY. And in these horrid days of ours it's the firemen who go through fire for their friends. ANNA PETROVNA. Don't be silly, Nikolya! Pause. GLAGOLYEV SR. Last winter at the Moscow opera I ...
... VOINITSEV (yawns). Those were the days! TRILETSKY. And in these horrid days of ours it's the firemen who go through fire for their friends. ANNA PETROVNA. Don't be silly, Nikolya! Pause. GLAGOLYEV SR. Last winter at the Moscow opera I ...
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ain’t Aleksandr ANNA PETROVNA AVDOTYA NAZAROVNA BABAKINA BORKIN BORTSOV BUGROV can’t Chekhov Cherry Orchard CHUBUKOV damn dear didn’t door drink DUDKIN DYADIN Exits eyes father FEDYA forgive FYODOR IVANOVICH General’s lady GLAGOLYEV JR goes GREKOVA GUEST hand happy he’s heaven’s sake hell honor I’ve IVAN IVANOVICH IVANOV Ivanych KHRUSHCHOV Kisses KOSYKH KRASNUSHKINA Laughs LEBEDEV LEDENTSOV listen LOMOV look Lord LVOV ma’am Mariya married MERIK Mikhail Vasilich Moscow Moscow Art Theatre NATALIYA STEPANOVNA never Nikolay Alekseevich ORLOVSKY OSIP Pause PETRIN PLATONOV play POPOVA Roars with laughter rubles Russian SASHA SCENE SEREBRYAKOV Sergey SHABELSKY SHCHERBUK SHIPUNOV Shouts Shurochka SMIRNOV SOFYA YEGOROVNA SONYA talk tell Theatre there’s thing TIKHON TRILETSKY Uncle Vanya understand VENGEROVICH JR VOINITSEV VOINITSKY walks What’s Who’s wife wife’s woman won’t Wood Goblin YELENA ANDREEVNA you’re you’ve young YULYA ZHELTUKHIN ZINAIDA SAVISHNA