Chekhov Then and Now

The Editor: J. Douglas Clayton is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa. He is author of a study of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and of numerous articles on Russian literature and theatre. His most recent book, Pierrot in Petrograd, examines the role of commedia dell'arte in early twentieth-century Russian theatre and drama.

Contents: Laurence Senelick: Chekhov and the bubble reputation - Sharon Marie Carnicke: Stanislavsky's production of The Cherry Orchard in the US - Daniel Gerould: The Pitoëffs' Chekhov - Clara Hollosi: The importance of being earnest (or funny) in adapting Chekhov: The case of Platonov - Ronald D. Leblanc: Liberating Chekhov or destroying him? Joel Gersmann's farcical production of The Cherry Orchard - John Tulloch/Tom Burvill/Andrew Hood: The Cherry Orchard in production and criticism - Nick Worrall: Robert Sturua's interpretation of Chekhov's Three Sisters: An experiment in post-modern theatre - Richard C. Borden: The comic Chekhov on the Russian stage, 1993-94 - Peter G. Christensen: Edward Bond as a Chekhovian playwright - Vladimir Zviniatskovsky: Two Ladies With Two Dogs And Two Gentlemen (Joyce Carol Oates and Chekhov) - Serafima Roll: The theatre of feeble discourse: From Chekhov's tenuous meaning to Nina Sadur's failure of speech - J. Douglas Clayton: Touching solitudes: Chekhov in Canada 1926-1980 - Lian Shu Li: Chekhov studies in China - Evgeny Steiner: The reception of Chekhov in Japan - Christine Hamon: Les Traductions françaises des pièces de Tchékhov: Du «charme slave» à la mise à nu du texte - Vera Adamantova and Rodney Williamson: Chekhovian irony and satire and the translator's art: Visions and versions of personal worlds - Alexander Sadetsky: Polysemy/homonymy: Interpreting the centrifugally directed wholeness of the Chekhovian word - Emma Polotskaia: Chekhov in the language of ballet: The Seagull at the Bolshoi Theatre - Elena Siemens: A tempest in a tea cup: Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes and Chekhov's «The Lady with the Dog» - Alevtina Kuzicheva: «Breaking the rules»: Chekhov and his contemporaries - Julie W. de Sherbinin: Chekhov and Christianity: The critical evolution - Peta Tait: The proposal reconsidered: A biography of love.