This volume offers lively and accurate translations of Chekhovs major plays and one-acts along with a superb Introduction focused on the plays remarkably enduring power to elicit the most widely divergent of responses, the life of the playwright in its historical and aesthetic contexts, suggestions for reading the plays under a microscope, and notes designed to bring Chekhovs world into immediate focuseverything needed to examine his drama with fresh eyes and on its own artistic terms.
