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Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
Hardback
Main Details
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Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) James N. Loehlin
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| Series | Plays in Production |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:262 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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| Category/Genre | Drama
Literary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - plays and playwrights |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521825931
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| Classifications | Dewey:891.723 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | | General | |
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| Illustrations |
13 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
14 September 2006 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Chekhov's masterpiece, about a Russian family losing its ancestral home, combines a lament for a vanishing past with a hopeful dream of the future. In the century since its first performance, The Cherry Orchard has undergone a wide range of conflicting interpretations: tragic and comic, naturalistic and symbolic, reactionary and radical. Beginning with the 1904 premiere at Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, this study traces the performance history of one of the landmark plays of the modern theatre. Considering the work of such directors as Anatoly Efros, Giorgio Strehler, Peter Brook, and Peter Stein, Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard explores the way different artists, periods and cultures have reinvented Chekhov's poignant comedy of failure and hope.
Author Biography
James N. Loehlin is currently Director of the Shakespeare at Winedale program at the University of Texas, and is a recipient of the Harry Ransom Teaching Award in the College of Liberal Arts. He is the editor of Romeo and Juliet in the Cambridge Shakespeare in Production series (2002), and of Henry V (Shakespeare in Performance, 1996).
Reviews"Loehlin provides a detailed and through analysis of the text." -Nicholas G. Zekulin, Canadian Slavonic Papers
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