Biography of Anton Chekhov --
Plot summary of The seagull --
List of characters in The seagull --
Critical views on The Seagull: --
Ernest J. Simmons on the first production of The seagull --
Robert Louis Jackson on the importance of art in The seagull --
Michael Heim on Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater --
Jerome H. Katsell on Maupassant in The seagull --
Richard Peace on Shamrayev --
Richard Gilman on the characters and their art --
Plot summary of Uncle Vanya --
List of characters in Uncle Vanya --
Critical views on Uncle Vanya: --
Nina Andronikova Toumanova on Stanislavsky and Chekhov's plays --
Eric Bentley on Chekhov and melodrama and farce --
Sonia Kovitz on hopelessness in Uncle Vanya --
Irina Kirk on Uncle Vanya and beauty --
Irina Kirk on Uncle Vanya and beauty --
Gary Saul Morson on Yelena and work --
Richard Gilman on the characters' hope for a better life --
Plot summary of The three sisters --
List of characters in The three sisters --
Critical views on The three sisters: --
W.H. Bruford on Chekhov and religion --
John Gassner on Chekhov's cautious optimism --
Siegfried Melchinger on the symbolism of Moscow --
Karl D. Kramer on Andrey and Chebutykin --
Eugene K. Bristow on Chekhov and the combination of comedy and tragedy --
Plot summary of The cherry orchard --
List of characters in The cherry orchard --
Critical views on The cherry orchard: --
Maxim Gorky on Chekhov's tragic humor --
Francis Fergusson on the suffering of change in The cherry orchard --
Ilya Ehrenburg on the shadings of character in Chekhov's works --
Maurice Valency on the world of The cherry orchard --
John Tulloch on The cherry orchard in a political scheme --
Donald Rayfield on the ideas behind The cherry orchard.
The work in the writer / Harold Bloom
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography of Anton Chekhov / Elizabeth Silverthorne
Exploring the works of Anton Chekhov / Mei Chin
Love / Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Seeing Chekhov plain / Edmund Wilson
From the Book - New edition.
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
The cherry orchard : Chekhov's last testament / Savely Senderovich --
Re-examining the "Coldly Objective" point-of-view in Chekhov's "The Bet" and "A Trifle from Life" / Maggie Christensen --
Constance Garnett's Chekhov and the modernist short story / Adrian Hunter --
The paradox of melancholy insight : reading the medical subtext in Chekhov's "A Boring Story" / Jefferson J. A. Gatrall --
Chekhov's stories : effects or subtexts? / Kerry McSweeny --
The masculine triangle in Uncle Vania / Kjeld Bjornager --
Two-timing time in Three Sisters / Cynthia Marsh --
Translating and mistranslating Chekhov / Robin Milner-Gulland and Olga Soboleva --
Against narrative ("A Boring Story") / Pekka Tammi --
Greek tragedy, Chekhov, and being remembered / Oliver Taplin --
A blind spot : Chekhov's deepest horizons / Stuart Young.
