Checking out Chekhov : : A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers / / Sharon Marie Carnicke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Carnicke, Sharon Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Companions to Russian Literature
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov—a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed plays have left an indelible imprint upon the world’s theatre. Every page reveals the joys and difficulties of his short life, his comic sensibility, deep compassion, and often puzzling use of dramatic style and genre. Carnicke demystifies Chekhov’s plays—forged from his literary innovations, avid theatergoing, love of vaudeville, and loathing of melodrama. She interweaves biographical and cultural information with insightful case studies and close analysis to leave her reader with a full and fresh perspective on an artist who is as foundational to theatrical traditions as are Shakespeare and Stanislavsky.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR -- TO THE READER -- ACKNOWLEGEMENTS -- PERMISSIONS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TRANSLITERATIONS OF RUSSIAN WORDS, NAMES, AND TITLES OF WORKS -- ELLIPSES AND DATES -- THE USAGE OF RUSSIAN NAMES -- Introduction: A Taste Like Olives -- Chapter One: Chekhov on His Own Terms -- Chapter Two: The Literary Soil for Chekhov’s Drama -- Chapter Three: The Devil in the Details of Chekhov’s Plays -- Chapter Four: Dramatic Innovations Part One: Vaudeville -- Chapter Five: Dramatic Innovations Part Two: Melodrama -- Chapter 6: Chekhov’s Plays as Blueprints for Performances -- Conclusion: A Matter of Perspective -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index of Names, Terms, and Chekhov’s Works -- Index of Character Names from Chekhov’s Major Plays