Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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Standard Name: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maya Angelou
This volume has much less about her intellectual development than its predecessor, but MA mentions that as her work began to dabble on the verge of criminality she discovered the Russian writers, beginning with...
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
Textual Production Iris Tree
IT 's sole biographer, Daphne Fielding , records that Tree wrote a number of plays during her time in Ireland. It seems they were not printed, since there are no records of them in...
Textual Production Constance Garnett
CG translated the major works of Chekhov , producing in many cases the earliest English versions of them.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov , Hoffmansthal , Ibsen , and Strindberg , while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw , Yeats , Masefield ,
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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and other British dramatists.
Textual Production Ann Jellicoe
AJ knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the theatre. At school she put together amateur productions of many of her own creations. Her first work to achieve a professional production...
Textual Production Anita Brookner
AB published a new novel, The Bay of Angels, whose dust-jacket features A. N. Wilson likening Brookner to Chekhov .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Ali Smith
A second anthology collaboration from AS , Sarah Wood , and Kasia Boddy was issued by Penguin Modern Classics: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
Beecham called the play a ferocious Geordie drama thick with dialect, diatribe and an unsparing depiction of the brutalities of the industrial north at the turn of the century.
Beecham, Richard, and Patricia Riley. “Foreword”. Looking for Githa, New Writing North.
Its recent director, Jonathan Miller ...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
Her title, and her epigraph, come from Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard, and Moscow functions for the English characters in the novel as an impossible utopia. In the USA the novel was titled All...
Textual Features Katherine Mansfield
KM 's letters and journals reflect an intensity of engagement with the detail of the world around her and with her own inner life: a blend of carefully nurtured skills, as well as, latterly, the...
Textual Features Sylvia Townsend Warner
Warner's stories have been compared to those of Anton Chekhov , which are likewise portrayals of character and place having little or no plot.
Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research.
139: 305
Her compassionate, yet unsentimental, acceptance of people with all...
Textual Features Nadine Gordimer
She aligned her stories with the difficult truth-telling of Chekhov .
Textual Features Enid Bagnold
Eccentric Mrs St Maugham (owner of the garden on cold and grudging chalk soil, whose poor growing qualities are the play's central symbol) takes on Miss Madrigal as governess to her grand-daughter, Laurel, precisely because...

Timeline

1897: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov published at St Petersburg...

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1897

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov published at St PetersburgP'esy, a book of plays.

1901: Tri Sestry (The Three Sisters) by Anton Pavlovich...

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1901

Tri Sestry (The Three Sisters) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov appeared on stage (in Moscow) and in print.

1904: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's final play, Vishnevyi...

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1904

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 's final play, Vishnevyi Sad (The Cherry Orchard), both appeared in print in a journal and was produced at the Moscow Art Theatre .

November 1909: The recently established Glasgow Repertory...

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November 1909

The recently established Glasgow Repertory Theatre Company performed the first British production of Chekhov , with The Seagull, at the Royalty Theatre , Glasgow.

28 May 1911: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...

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28 May 1911

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard was first performed in England (in Constance Garnett 's translation): by the Incorporated Stage Society at the Aldwych Theatre in London.

June 1925: The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts...

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June 1925

The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts Guild to promote socialist drama and performance.

Texts

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. The Plays of Tchehov. Translator Garnett, Constance, Chatto and Windus, 1923.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, and Edward Garnett. The Tales of Tchehov. Translator Garnett, Constance, Chatto and Windus, 1922.