Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Category : Dramatists, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Letters between the playwright and the actress who eventually became his wife; chronicles love struggling against the handicap of distance and the ravages of terminal illness.

Author: Carol Apollonio
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498570453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history, translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose, poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general audience.

Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136343415
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Konstantin Stanislavsky transformed theatre in the West and was indisputably one of the twentieth century’s greatest innovators. His life and work mark some of the most significant artistic and political milestones of that tumultuous century, from the emancipation of the serfs to the Russian Revolution. Little wonder, then, that his correspondence contains gripping exchanges with the famous and infamous of his day: men such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, Trotsky and Stalin, among others. Laurence Senelick, one of the world’s foremost scholars of Russian literature, mines the Moscow archives and the definitive Russian edition of Stanislavsky’s letters, to produce the fullest collection of the letters in any language other than Russian. He sheds new light on this fascinating field. Senelick takes us from the earliest extant letter of an eleven-year-old Konstantin in 1874, through his work as actor, director and actor trainer with the Moscow Art Theatre, to messages written just before his death in 1938 at the age of seventy-five. We discover Stanislavsky as son, brother and father, as lover and husband, as businessman and "internal emigre." He is seen as a wealthy tourist and an impoverished touring actor, a privileged subject of the Tsar and a harried victim of the Bolsheviks. Senelick shares key insights into Stanislavsky's work on such important productions as The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Othello, and The Marriage of Figaro. The letters also reveal the steps that led up to the publication of his writings My Life in Art and An Actor’s Work on Himself. This handsome edition is also comprehensively annotated and fully illustrated.

Author: Carol Rocamora
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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A play by Carol Rocamora suggested by the letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper. Chekhov wrote Knipper 412 love letters in the six years they shared.

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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Author: William E. Gruber
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820338516
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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In Comic Theaters, William E. Gruber draws dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play's text toward a theory of theater that more fully incorporates performance. The bare text is clothed in the cultural norms and conceptions of both actor and audience in performance; in the conversion of words into action; in the actor's creation of his role; and in the audience's involvement with the scenes on stage. Reinterpreting six comedies taken from classical Greek, Renaissance, and modern repertories, Gruber shows how dramatic meaning is derived not from traditional criteria, archetypal motifs, or unchanging affective responses, but from changing concepts of theater and changing configurations of actor and role.

Author: Jean Benedetti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135861420
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Moscow Art Theatre Letters tells the real story of the Moscow Art Theatre, from its origin at the turn of the century through its first forty years. Jean Benedetti presents the historical record first-hand in this collection of the letters of the main protagonists. Many are available in English for the first time--all will come as a revelation to Western readers.

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Languages : en
Pages : 824

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