Chekhov on the British Stage
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- Editor: Patrick Miles
- Date Published: June 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521384674
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Chekhov's plays have become the most popular ones in Britain next to Shakespeare's. This is the first book to consider this phenomenon from its beginnings in 1909 to the present. It embodies the facts of Chekhov's progress on the British stage, which involves such giants of twentieth-century theater as Komisarjevsky, Bernard Shaw, Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud, but it also examines the highly contentious issues of directing, acting and translating Chekhov in Britain today. It is a book intended for those interested in the living British theater.
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- Date Published: June 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521384674
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.509kg
- availability: Available
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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