The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates Chekhov's entire theatrical canon, rescuing the humor -lost' in most academic translations while respecting the historical context and original social climate.aThese critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor.aSchmidt's translations of Chekhov have been successfully staged all over the United States by such theatrical directors as Lee Strasberg, Elizabeth Swados, Peter Sellas, and Robert Wilson. Critics have hailed these translations as making Chekhov fully accessible to American audiences. They are also accurate-Schmidt has been described as -the gold standard in Russian-English translation' by Michael Holquist of the Russian Department at Yale University.

Paul Schmidt wrote many award winning translations. He held a Ph.D in Slavic Literature from Harvard and was a professor of Russian literature at the University of Texas and Wellesley College. His critical essays appeared in The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and Delos. He was a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Catherine Ciepiela is Professor of Russian at Amherst, and author of The Same Solitude, a book about Marinas Tsvetaeva's long-distance romance with Boris Pasterna.

Honor Moore's collections of poems are RedShoes, Darling, and Memoir. She edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and is author of The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent.

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ISBN 13	9780060928759
ISBN 10	0060928751
Title	The Plays of Anton Chekhov
Author	Anton Chekhov
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	1998-04-08
Number of pages	400
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