Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Note on style and abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Chekhov on the British stage: differences
3. The 'inevitability' of Chekhov: Anglo-Russian theatrical contacts in the 1910s
4. Chekhov, naturalism and the drama of dissent: productions of Chekhov's plays in Britain before 1914
5. Bernard Shaw's dialogue with Chekhov
6. Coping with the outlandish: the English response to Chekhov's plays 1911–1926
7. Komisarjevsky's 1926 Three Sisters
8. Peggy Ashcroft and Chekhov
9. Far from the West End: Chekhov and the Welsh language stage 1924–1991
10. Chekhov re-viewed: the Moscow Art Theatre's visits to Britain in 1958, 1964 and 1970
11. A path to Chekhov
12. Subsequent performances: Chekhov
13. The 'dwindling scale': the politics of British Chekhov
14. The Cherry Orchard: a new English version by Trevor Griffiths
15. Changes of direction: Mike Alfred's methods with Chekhov
16. Chekhov and the company problem in the British theatre
17. Design for Chekhov
18. My search for standards as a translator of Chekhov's plays
19. Chekhov into English: the case of The Seagull
20. English translations of Chekhov's plays: a Russian view
21. Appendix: A chronology of British professional productions of Chekhov's plays 1909–1991
Index.

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