Anton Čechov

Il giardino dei ciliegi è l'ultimo lavoro teatrale di Anton Čechov. Fu rappresentato per la prima volta il 17 gennaio 1904 al Teatro d'Arte di Mosca sotto la direzione di Kostantin Sergeevič Stanislavskij e di Vladimir Nemirovič-Dančenko. Sei mesi dopo Čechov morì di tubercolosi. Čechov concepì quest'opera come una …

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the …

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the …

Chekhov's Dama s sobachkoy (1899) is perhaps the most celebrated example of his shorter prose and one of the most famous stories in Russian literature. The tale of an adulterous liaison, set in Yalta, it shows to greatest effect Chekhov's propensity for the conjuring of mood and atmosphere. The tale's modernity is …

Il gabbiano è un dramma in 4 atti scritto nel 1895 da Anton Pavlovič Čechov. Rappresentato per la prima volta al Teatro Aleksandrinskij di Pietroburgo l'anno successivo, fu un insuccesso clamoroso. Vera Komissarževskaja, che impersonava Nina, fu così intimidita dall'ostilità del pubblico che perse la voce. Čechov …

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s Uncle Vanya is a sparkling restoration of a masterpiece of the modern stage, marked by Mamet’s finely tuned ear for dialogue and memorable poetic imagery.In "Uncle Vanya," a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased …