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by Anton Tchékhov
language: english
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, October of 2017 ‧
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"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English." —James Wood, New Yorker

The Seagull, in this new translation for TCG’s Russian Drama Series, includes lines and variants found in Chekhov’s final version of the play, but omitted from the script for the original performance at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, which went on to become the standard printed version. The restored text, a product of the continuing collaboration of playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, provides valuable insight into Chekhov’s intentions in his groundbreaking play.

Richard Nelson’s many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry, Regular Singing); The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Hungry, What Did You Expect?, Women of a Certain Age); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Franny’s Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank’s Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002, respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France.

 

Seagull

by Anton Tchékhov

Property Description
ISBN: 9781559368711
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Release Date: October of 2017
Language: English
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility:
Collection: Tcg Classic Russian Drama Series
Categories: eBooks in English > Art > Performing Arts
eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
EAN: 9781559368711
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anton Tchékhov

Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on January 29, 1860, the son of a merchant. His family moved to Moscow in 1876 due to his father's bankruptcy, but Anton remained in his hometown to finish high school. Thus, it was only three years later that he joined his family in Moscow, where he enrolled in medical school. To help his family financially, Chekhov does small journalistic work and his first literary attempts. He finished his medical studies in 1884 and began to practice in the outskirts of Moscow.
His first narrative was published in a humorous newspaper in 1880, triggering an intense collaboration between Anton and several publications. His first dramatic texts date from the late 1880s ("Ivanov").
In 1892 he bought a house in the countryside in Mélikhovo, where he moved with his family. Three years later he visited Tolstoy, whose ideas would exert a strong influence and a great fascination on Chekhov.
Due to illness, he moved to Yalta, in Crimee. It was at the end of his life that he wrote the three plays that consecrated him as a great playwright: "The Seagull" in 1896, "The Three Sisters" in 1900 and "The Cherry Grove" in 1903. In 1904 he left for Germany with the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had married in 1901, dying in July in Badenweiler, in the Black Forest. Today he is recognized as one of the greatest Russian writers.

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