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When Chekhov, then 21, finished the play, he brought it to an actress. After the play was rejected, perhaps because its diffuse narrative would take six to seven hours to stage, he destroyed his manuscript. Another copy, found after his death, has given rise to several adaptations. Frayn's, which lasts 2 1/2 hours, shifts the focus from the leading lady to a man, the schoolteacher Platonov, and provides a wondrous star turn for Ian McKellen, who won a 1981 Tony Award for his portrayal of Salieri in Amadeus...
What kinds of prepublication agreements ... might we consider improper for a scholar? Suppose that [a] widow would only offer materials to the biographer of her husband on condition that she review the manuscript in advance to insure that her husband was "treated with proper respect?" Or suppose that the widow offered her papers only with the promise that she have power to censor the book to insure the accuracy not merely of her own statements but of everything written about her husband. In both cases, the standards are so broad and vague as to carry an unacceptable risk of interfering...
...that they were entitled to present. To put it more generally, we see nothing wrong with allowing someone else to review a draft and edit it for matters of legitimate concern to the reviewer, if these matters are sufficiently inconsequential that the threat to the scholarly integrity of the manuscript seems nonexistant or clearly outweighed by the added information made available in return...
...classified information (unless and until there is evidence that such reviews have resulted in unjustified censorship). But I do feel that members should be required to disclose that fact in any book or article so reviewed and to indicate whether the review resulted in any changes in the manuscript. (I should add that even though I would not now urge a rule prohibiting others from submitting to such reviews, I would be personally reluctant as a scholar to agree to prepublication review of my own manuscripts.) Assuming that the preceding points were accepted, it may be superfluous to require professors...
Teicher, who speaks fluent Hebrew, caused another flap five years ago when he tried to publish a fictionalized account of Israel's nuclear secrets. The manuscript was confiscated by the Israeli military censor, and Teicher did not seek to publish it elsewhere...