Chekhov Plays: The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard Contributor(s): Chekhov, Anton (Author), Frayn, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 041318160X ISBN-13: 9780413181602 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1988 Annotation: The critical clamour for a Complete Chekhov in Michael Frayn's translation has borne fruit Sunday Times |
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BISAC Categories: - Education - Drama | European - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 90203004 |
Series: Methuen World Classics |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.9" W x 8" (1.00 lbs) 464 pages |
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Publisher Description: This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures and The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way to the new. Haunting and elusive, these four great late masterpieces have found in Michael Frayn a translator who perfectly captures their delicate balance of the tragic and the absurd. The volume also contains four of Chekhov's early short 'vaudevilles' as well as a substantial introduction by Michael Frayn.The critical clamour for a Complete Chekhov in Michael Frayn's translation has borne fruit (Sunday Times) |
Contributor Bio(s): Frayn, Michael: - Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London. Frayn, Michael: -Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London. |