TEHRAN- The 37th edition of a Persian translation of the renowned Russian author Anton Chekhov's 1892 novella “Ward No. 6” ...

The hectic rhythms of this age are not those of an Anton Chekhov play. Yet the Russian writer is very much in evidence right now. More consumed with questions than with answers, Chekhov's plays depict ...

Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas ...

"What makes a great play," says Carey Perloff, "is that the issues it raises, and the world it evokes are so redolent of our ...

More than three decades after it first illuminated a Colombo stage, Chekhov Sandhyava returns—not as a relic revived for ...

Key themes, character analysis, and exam-focused insights to help students score high in the literature section., Education, ...

When Chekhov lay dying in a spa town in Germany's Black Forest, his doctor ordered oxygen, only to have the playwright insist it was too late and request a bottle of champagne instead. It was a ...

Chekhov’s gun is a dramatic principle that maintains that every element of a play should fulfill its promise to the audience—for example, a loaded gun that appears in the first act must go off by the ...

Ever found Russian literature a little hard going? Well, luckily a work by Russia's greatest playwright has been propelled into the present by giving it a digital makeover. StoryMax What if each ...