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Original Title:	Иванов / Чайка / Дядя Ваня / Три сестры / Вишнёвый сад
ISBN:	0192834126 (ISBN13: 9780192834126)
Edition Language:	English

Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 5741 Users | 159 Reviews

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Title	:	Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard
Author	:	Anton Chekhov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	July 9th 1998 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1887)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Fiction. Literature. Russian Literature. Theatre

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I don't think that this translation is the one that I was familiar with and can't recommend any one translation in particular. Chekhov has a had a strange fate in English in that his plays - judging by revivals of Ivanov - seem to be more valued than his short stories. It seems as though Chekhov's plays have tapped into a particular British nostalgia which doesn't help us to understand his plays in their own context. Chekhov wasn't a solidly middle-class Edwardian Englishman reflecting on a world that had vanished after WWI, he was the grandson of a serf who through the business acumen of his grandfather was able to study to become a Doctor in late Tsarist Russia, an era of abrupt and uneven violent economic and social change. During his medical training Chekhov wrote some one act comedies but moved on to become a writer of short stories. Later in his career he began to write plays as a sideline and his relationship with the actress Olga Knipper was important here. Reading the plays in chronological order you can feel the slow development of his style and voice, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard are competent pieces but don't in my opinion come close to being as powerful as his best short fiction. Then again perhaps I don't have much of a taste for the theatrical. Though I'm oddly haunted that at the centre of Three Sisters is the maligned sister-in-law!

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What a fantastic collection of plays! Every one of them was a masterpiece. I particularly loved the nuanced naturalism of the characters. They were all , of course, intelligently reflective and the women were all substantial and equal to the men in every way. How refreshing! My only misgiving was that I wanted to tell them not to be so defined by their past and that today is a new day. Wonderful. I am so happy I finally picked this up off my bookshelf. Now to find a theatre company performing

I suspect this edition of Chekhov's major plays is basically an update of the tattered old paperback I just read with its superb introduction by Robert Brustein, who expertly anatomizes Chekhov's mastery of understated stagecraft and downplayed melodrama. But I don't reread Chekhov every once in a while for introductions, which I generally avoid, or afterwords, which I generally avoid, or blurbs on the dust jacket. Chekhov for me is the master of the day-to-day dullness and frustrations of life,

Reading, as opposed to seeing Chekhov is quite a strange experience because of his impressionistic technique - nothing is explained, everything is surface, the opposite of the great classic novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky which are all psychology. There are motifs, as in poetry, which emerge or sink into the narrative. The dialogue is so ambiguous, so flexible, that the variety of interpretations that theatre companies can bring to the plays seems to be endless, judging from Anatoly

This collection of stellar plays was my first experience with Chekhov yet most certainly not my last. The fact that he was writing these over 100 years ago is totally unfathomable. His works have a certain freshness that transcends the period. Of course today, his old homage, that if a gun is present in the first act of a Chekhov play it will go off in the last, is quite cliched, it was relatively original in its own time. In fact, I thought the underlying philosophies of Chekhov's plays were a

Take that!

I must confess that classical Russian authors scare me. I believe that is why my Dostoevsky collection and most of my Tolstoy have remained untouched for all these years. When I reached for Chekhov I didnt know what to expect. The only thing I was certain of was that I wanted to see The Sea Gull in London. The plan was to actually read just that one play and carry on with my life. However, after reading the foreword by Robert Brustein I just couldnt and I am glad I didnt."You're a clever man:

"BORKIN [sighing]: Our life-. Man's life is like a bright flower blooming in a meadow. A goat comes along and eats it up. No more flower."That is to say, it is all meaningless."Ivanov" is quite a mixture of sour humor and misery for all. --"The Seagull" touches existential questioning and crisis - not only the meaning of life but of life as an artist.Again it is all pretty banal and meaningless in-between moments of self evaluation (or lack thereof). --A wasted life preoccupies Uncle Vanya. Its