Authors: Anton Chekhov, Laurence (Translator) Senelick, Laurence Senelick (Editor), Laurence Senelick
ISBN-13: 9780393924657, ISBN-10: 0393924653
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860 in Taganrog, Russia. He graduated from the University of Moscow in 1884. Chekhov died of tuberculosis in Germany on July 14, 1904, shortly after his marriage to actress Olga Knipper, and was buried in Moscow.
Laurence Senelick is the Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory at Tufts University and author of more than a dozen books, including the award-winning The Chekhov Theatre and The Changing Room: Sex, Drag, and the Theatre. He is director of his own translations of Gogol’s The Inspector General (1998) and Euripides’ The Bakkhai (2001).
Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas.