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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).

“Senelick’s accomplishment is astounding.”—Library Journal

NY Post

...a new, faithful, very playable and gorgeous translation by Jean-Claude van Itallie.

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Translation

Source and Transliterations

Money and Measures

Russian Names

Pronunciation

Introduction: A Taste for Chekhov's Drama

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A Selected Bibliography in English 61