Complete Plays of Chekhov (4 Volumes in the Set) This book series collects excellent Chinese translations of Chekhov’s plays and publishes them in four volumes. Ivanov-The Seagull The comedy, The Seagull, describes the love ideal and experience of Nina, a wealthy girl from the countryside. It was performed in the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and won unprecedented success. The image of the seagull soaring high became the emblem of the Moscow Art Theatre. Ivanov is Chekhov’s first mas...
Complete Plays of Chekhov (4 Volumes in the Set) This book series collects excellent Chinese translations of Chekhov’s plays and publishes them in four volumes. Ivanov-The Seagull The comedy, The Seagull, describes the love ideal and experience of Nina, a wealthy girl from the countryside. It was performed in the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and won unprecedented success. The image of the seagull soaring high became the emblem of the Moscow Art Theatre. Ivanov is Chekhov’s first masterpiece in plays. The Fatherless-The Wood Demon The two multi-act plays are representative works of Chekhov’s early play creation. According to textual research, The Fatherless was written in Chekhov’s university days and was little known. The play depicts the decline of a manor in other province and depicts a group of intellectuals who have nothing to do but lounged the day in melancholy and depression represented by the protagonist, Platonov. It is the predecessor of a series of "superfluous" characters created in Chekhov’s works at the end of the century. The Wood Demon tells a family story centering on a cranky and selfish professor and successfully builds the image of the "Wood Demon", a doctor who had unique ideas but was unintelligible by people. The Wood Demon is regarded as a "graceful and dramatic novella". The Wood Demon is generally acknowledged as the predecessor of Uncle Vanya by the research circle and is an indispensable part of Chekhov’s play creation. Chekhov’s One-Act Plays This volume includes nine one-act plays, including On the Road, On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, Swansong and The Bear. They are short but interesting. Some of the works are experimental, reflect Chekhov’s special style exploration in one-act plays, and are an indispensable part of Chekhov’s play creation spectrum. Uncle Vanya-Three Sisters-The Cherry Orchard. They are sorted according to the time of creation. This volume also includes Translation Postscript of The Cherry Orchard written by Jiao Juyin in 1943. The three plays, though different in story, express the themes that Chekhov always pays attention to: he hates the gray group of people. They only knew to enrich their vacuous, declined and lazy life at present with incoherent empty talk and fantasy of the "future". They can be seen everywhere in Russian society in the end of the nineteenth century. He sympathizes with another group of people. They worked hard but their happiness and hope were destroyed. He created the beginning of modern drama with the general structure, lines and background description like lyric poems.
