Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
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The cherry orchard / Virginia Woolf -- Fragments of recollections / Maxim Gorky -- Craftsmanship in Uncle Vanya / Eric Bentley -- Anton Chekhov / Raymond Williams -- Anton Chekhov: (creation from the void) / Lev Shestov -- The cherry orchard: a theater-poem of the suffering of change / Francis Fergusson -- Chekhov's legacy: icebergs and epiphanies / Rufus W. Mathewson Jr. -- Three sisters / Howard Moss -- Chekhov and the modern drama / Martin Esslin -- Chekhov and the modern short story / Charles E. May -- The drama in crisis: Chekhov / Peter Szondi -- Chekhov, The sea gull / David Cole -- "At sea": a psychoanalytic approach to Chekhov's first signed work / Michael C. Finke -- "The enemies": a story at war with itself? / Robert Louis Jackson -- Fear and pity in "Ward Six": Chekhovian catharsis / Liza Knapp -- Uncle Vanya as prosaic metadrama / Gary Saul Morson.
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Contains a wide range of critical approaches by highly respected scholars in the order of their publication. These essays provide an absorbing chronicle of modern critical responses to Chekhov's work.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904-- Criticism and interpretation.