Collection of twelve poems by Anton Chekhov translated from the Russian.

Curt Columbus endows these timeless dramas Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard with dialogue that is faithful to the russian original but daz

Eminent critic Richard Gilman examines each of Chekhov's full-length plays, showing how they relate to each other, to Chekhov's short stories, and to his life.

While the influence of Chekhov in modern theater worldwide, and especially in America, has been immense, translations into English have tended to be too literar