Word: chekhovisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Civic REPERTORY THEATRE-Moliére, Goldoni, Tolstoy, Anet, Chekhov, Ibsen, Barrie, depending on the night...
THAT WORTHLESS FELLOW PLATONOV- Anton Chekhov; translated by John Gournos-Button...
...Anton Chekhov, prince of Russian short-story writers, prince of Russian playwrights, wrote one play that has waited until now to be translated into English. Without the lucid depths, the sparkling shallows, of his masterpiece The Cherry Orchard, That Worthless Fellow Platonov obviously wells up from the same source. No one but a Russian, no Russian but warmhearted, skeptical Anton Chekhov, could have written...
...text has been left as Chekhov abandoned it: many speeches, printed in brackets, would do well to come out, and no real Chekhovisms would be lost. From time to time his well-known' accents are heard: "When I philosophize I lie terribly." Says Platonov angrily to Vengerovitch: "There's no out-arguing a half-educated Jew." Meekly replies Vengerovitch: "No, there isn't. . . ." Says Anna Petrovna, trying to overcome Platonov's scruples: "Why, it's very simple: a woman has come to you . . . she loves you, and you love her. . . . The weather is lovely . . . what...
...Author. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a doctor who took to writing humorous pieces for Moscow journals to help defray the expenses of his unwieldy household. A bachelor, he had a larger family than many a paterfamilias, and they did their best to eat him out of house and home. When critics began to take his funny stories seriously, no one was more amused and surprised than Dr. Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow...