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Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English. James Wood, New Yorker
The Seagull, in this new translation for TCGs Russian Drama Series, includes lines and variants found in Chekhovs final version of the play, but omitted from the script for the original performance at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, which went on to become the standard printed version. The restored text, a product of the continuing collaboration of playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, provides valuable insight into Chekhovs intentions in his groundbreaking play.
Richard Nelsons many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry, Regular Singing); The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Hungry, What Did You Expect?, Women of a Certain Age); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Frannys Way; Some Americans Abroad; Franks Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyces The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002, respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France.
Author: Anton Chekhov
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 11/21/2017
Series: Tcg Classic Russian Drama
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781559365499
Language: English
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