Plays

Anton Chekhov . Rupa Publications India . English

Chekhov first attained celebrity status as a playwright with The Seagull (1895), first produced in Petersburg, but subsequently brilliantly directed by Stanislavsky for the Moscow Art Theatre. Uncle Vanya (1900), Three Sisters (1901)andthe most famous of Chekhov's plays, The Cherry Orchard (1904), followed in quick succession. All four plays are included in this volume. A seemingly effortless blend of natural symbolism, these plays demonstrate Chekhov's perennial appeal anda re still produced the world over.

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

About the Author

Anton Palvovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is one of the most celebrated Russian playwrights and short story writers of the world whose works were made popular in English through the excellent translations of Constance Garnett, responsible for introducing to readers of English the best of the Russian writers: Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Gogol.

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