The Real Chekhov: An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays (Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature) - Softcover

Magarshack, David

 
9780367726515: The Real Chekhov: An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays (Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367726513 ISBN 13: 9780367726515
Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

What is Chekhov’s method of ensuring audience participation? What does his stage direction ‘through tears’ mean? What happens between the first and second acts of The Seagull? Is there any reason for the despondency in Chekhov’s drama? This book, first published in 1972, discusses these questions and many other issues around Chekhov’s last four plays. David Magarshack, the leading translator and biography of many of Russia’s greatest writers, closely examines Chekhov’s work for the relevant facts about his writing, and demonstrates that no reliance should be placed on the so-called subtext which can introduce all sorts of irrelevancies arising from pre-conceived ideas about the plays. A careful reading of Chekhov’s text itself is all that is needed to correct the familiar distortions of his characters and themes.

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David Magarshack

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367726513
ISBN 13 
9780367726515
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
250

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