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| Name: |
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | | Birth Date: |
January, 1860 | | Death Date: |
July 2, 1904 | | Place of Birth: |
Taganrog, Russia | | Place of Death: |
Badenweiler, Germany | | Nationality: |
Russian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
dramatist, author |
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 Biography of Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov
16764 words, approx. 55.9 pages
 Anton Chekhov is today one of the most widely known authors of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Appreciated not only in Russia and the West but also in Asia, he was a master of the short story, and his innovations in the poetics of short prose fict... summary from source:
 Biography of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
1915 words, approx. 6.4 pages
The Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is among the major short-story writers and dramatists of modern times. During the last half of the 19th century the old order in Russia was crumbling. Political institutions were out of line with act...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Uncle Vanya Information
646 words, approx. 2 pages
 Uncle Vanya is a tragicomedy by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov published in 1899. Its first major performance was in 1900 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. Uncle Vanya is unique among Chekhov's major plays because it is essentially...
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The New York Observer Triumphant Broadway Debut: Bill Nighy's Time Has Come
12/10/2006: 1,004 words, approx. 3 pagesThere’s at least one outstanding reason to see David Hare’s premiere of The Vertical Hour at the Music Box: Bill Nighy, playing Mr. Hare’s worldly Englishman to Julianne Moore’s idealistic American, is giving one of the most remarkable performances ever seen in a Broadway debut....
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Eric Bentley
9,411 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, which was written in 1946, Bentley examines Chekhov's modifcations of The Wood Demon to create Uncle Vanya and explores the author's manipulation of mundane details in the latter play to achieve "a drama of imagination and thought."
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Critical Essay by Gary Saul Morson
6,440 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Morson reads Uncle Vanya as a "metaliterary satire of histrionics and intelligentsial posing."
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Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov | |
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