Anton Chekhov's Plays: The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchid (Norton Critical Editions)

Table of Contents:
Preface --
A note on the texts of the plays --
A note on transliteration and pronunciation --
Introduction: On translating Chekhov --
The texts of the plays. The sea gull ; Uncle Vanya ; The three sisters ; The cherry orchard --
Backgrounds. [Chekhov's Russia] / Ronald Hingley --
Chekhov : critic and playwright. Impure tragedians and leprous playwrights / Anton Chekhov ; On the injurious effects of tobacco (first version, 1886) / Anton Chekhov ; On the injurious effects of tobacco (last version, 1902) / Anton Chekhov --
Criticism. The dramaturgy of Chekhov. [Purpose and structure in Chekhov's plays] / David Magarshack ; The bizarre element in Chekhov's art / Charles B. Timmer ; Chekhov and naturalism : from affinity to divergence / Nicholas Moravc̆evich --
Chekhov : language, style, performance. [Nastroenie and atmosphere in Chekhov's plays] / Ronald Hingley ; The naturalistic theatre and the theatre of mood / Vsevolod Meyerhold ; [A definition of poshlostʹ] / Vladimir Nabokov ; Chekhov's Three sisters at the Gorky Theatre / Georgy Tovstonogov --
Chekhov : the major plays. Chekhov's Sea gull and Shakespeare's Hamlet : a study of a dramatic device / Thomas G. Winner ; Craftsmanship in Uncle Vanya / Eric Bentley ; [Chekhov's dramaturgy in The three sisters] / Robert Brustein ; [The cherry orchard : a theatre-poem of the suffering of change] / Francis Fergusson --
Legacy. Stage productions in Europe / Siegfried Melchinger ; The duality of Chekhov / John Gassner.