Adapting Chekhov [electronic resource] : the text and its mutations / edited by J. Douglas Clayton and Yana Meerzon.
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov's dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic charact...
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Table of Contents:
- Diagnosis and Balagan: the poetics of Chekhov's drama / J. Douglas Clayton
- Rewriting Chekhov in Russia today: questioning a fragmented society and finding new aesthetic reference points / Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu
- The flight of the dead bird: Chekhov's The seagull and Williams's The notebook of Trigorin / Maria Ignatieva
- Talking and walking past each other: Chekhovian "echoes" in Czech drama and theatre / Veronika Ambros
- Howard Barker's (Uncle) Vanya: Chekhov shaken, not stirred / Charles Lamb
- Transtextual crossbreeds in post-communist context: an anthropological analysis of Horia Gârbea's The seagull from the cherry orchard / Diana Manole
- Chekhov in the age of globalization: Janusz Glowacki's The fourth sister / Magda Romanska
- Theatre and subaltern histories: Chekhov adaptation in post-colonial India / Bishnupriya Dutt
- What comes "after Chekhov"? Mustapha Matura and west Indian reiterations of Three sisters / Victoria Pettersen Lantz
- From Moscow to Ballybeg: Brian Friel's richly metabiotic relationship with Anton Chekhov / Martine Pelletier
- Daniel Veronese's "proyecto Chéjov": translation in performance as radical rationality / Jean Graham-Jones
- Canadian Chekhovs: three very different mutations / James McKinnon
- The work of the theatre: the Wooster group adapts to Chekhov's Three sisters in Fish story / Sheila Rabillard
- The Japanization of Chekhov: contemporary Japanese adaptations of Three sisters / Yasushi Nagata
- Interrogating the real: Chekhov's cinema of verbatim. "Ward number six" in Karen Shakhnazarov's 2009 film adaptation / Yana Meerzon.