During Chekhov's lifetime it a sort of family legend, after his death it became a family mystery. The very existence of The High Road (1884) probably the earliest of its author's plays, will be unsuspected by English readers. A few bibliographical details are equally necessary, and permissible, and the elementary principles of Chekhov criticism will also be found useful. Calderon, to drawing the reader's attention to points of beauty not to be found in the original. This is a dangerous process and may well lead, as it led Mr. It is not the business of a translator to attempt to outdo all others in singing the praises of his raw material. George Calderon in 1912), none of these plays have been previously published in book form in England or America. With the exception of Chekhov's masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard (translated by the late Mr. All the dramatic works not included in her volume are to be found in the present one. In 1912 they brought out a volume containing four Chekhov plays, translated by Marian Fell. For these reasons it is pleasant to be able to chronicle the fact that, by way of contrast with the casual treatment normally handed out to Russian authors, the publishers are issuing the complete dramatic works of this author. Others, having no such valuable property to sacrifice on the altar of Chekhov, have not hesitated to place him side by side with Ibsen, and the other established institutions of the new theatre. Bernard Shaw has several times remarked: Every time I see a play by Chekhov, I want to chuck all my own stuff into the fire. He has been welcomed by British critics with something like affection. The ready acceptance of Chekhov has been one of the few successful features of this irresponsible output. The last few years have seen a large and generally unsystematic mass of translations from the Russian flung at the heads and hearts of English readers. This ebook was created with StreetLib Write

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