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The complete plays

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Laurence Senelick
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©2006.
Series: Norton paperback.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"This new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. This volume contains works that have never previously been translated, including the newly discovered farce The Power of Hypnotism and the first version of Ivanov, as well as Chekhov's early humorous dialogues. It also contains a description of lost plays and those Chekhov intended to write but  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Russian drama
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Named Person: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Laurence Senelick
ISBN: 0393048853 9780393048858 9780393330694 0393330699
OCLC Number: 61309386
Language Note: Translated from the Russian.
Description: lx, 1060 pages ; 25 cm
Contents: Early experiments --
Untitled play (without patrimony [disinherited] or Platonov) --
Variants --
Along the highway --
Collaboration --
The power of hypnotism by Anton Chekhov and Ivan Shcheglov --
Humorous dialogues and parodies --
The fool, or, The retired captain --
A young man --
Unclean tragedians and leprous playwrights --
An ideal examination --
"Chaos-vile in Rome" --
A mouth as big as all outdoors --
Honorable townsfolk --
At the sickbed --
The case of the year 1884 --
A drama --
Before the eclipse --
The sudden death of a steed, or, The magnanimity of the Russian people! --
Plays --
Swan song (calchas) --
Variants --
The evils of tobacco, first version --
Ivanov, first version --
Variants --
The bear --
Variants --
The proposal --
Variants --
Ivanov, final version --
Variants --
Tatyana Repina --
An involuntary tragedian (from the life of vacationers) --
Variant --
The wedding --
Variants --
The wood goblin --
Variants --
The celebration --
Variants --
The eve of the trial --
Variants --
The seagull --
Variants --
Uncle Vanya --
Variant --
Sisters --
Variants --
The evils of tobacco, final version --
The cherry orchard --
Variants --
Appendix: lost and unwritten plays.
Series Title: Norton paperback.
Other Titles: Plays.
Responsibility: Anton Chekhov ; translated, edited, and annotated by Laurence Senelick.
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