Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides a batch of one-act plays, mostly light "vaudevilles," Chekhov wrote a total of nine full-evening, four act plays. Of the first two, penned when he was 18, we know only the titles: The Fatherless, and Laugh It Off If You Can. At 21, he wrote the sprawling but remarkable Platonov, which turned up only long after his death, in the Soviet period. In his late twenties, he turned out Ivanov, a flawed but great and vastly underrated work capable of packing a tremendous wallop in performance; and the tentative, transitional The Wood Demon, which later also provided...
Jane Greenwood's costumes and Thomas Skelton's lighting are always fitting. There are at least a dozen widely known translations of The Three Sisters, but none of them was selected for this production. Kahn is using a version by Moura Budberg, of whom I know nothing at all. Her translation is viable enough, though there are a few things she has not got quite right, and at times some dictional touches that seem a bit too modern for a late-nineteenth-century milieu...
...When rational, we are, of course more skeptical. Only now we are even less inclined to pretend we are making our choices on anything like rational grounds. No, instead we accept the fact that our psychology drives us toward accepting the "irrational" as the only possible solution. Since I know little of odds-making I have no idea how probable or improbable this novel's prognosis for history is. But, as provocative reading in a new, developing genre, The Four-Gated City is anything but a long shot
...warrant, comes through best in his tales of old Odessa. In them, Chekhov's melancholy, Maupassant's detachment and Gogol's grotesque wit seem to fuse into the unmistakable Babel voice. It is a voice that can be heard most simply and clearly in You Must Know Everything, the title story of the collection. Considered to be his earliest known fiction, the story was discovered in manuscript and published in the Soviet Union...
Wells' energies were legendary. When he decided that people (including himself) did not know enough about history, he produced the three-quarter-million-word Outline of History in a year. Between the time he turned 60 and his death at 79, he wrote 39 books...