10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHEKOVIAN»
Discover the use of
Chekovian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Chekovian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shakespeare: The Two Traditions
Even a virtually complete version like Adrian Noble's 1992-93 Royal
Shakespeare Company production (with Kenneth Branagh) is called "Chekovian"
by at least two critics (Billington 1992, 42, and Spencer 1992, 29). It is a mistake
to believe ...
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Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert
And my colleagues and I have been working . . . not to find the sentimental happy
ending, a brotherly love, a sudden honeymoon to the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy,
but a Chekovian ending, which means clenched teeth compromise.6 In A ...
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Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel: Genre and ...
What Desai offers in this Chekovian novel, then, is a mixing of different genres
that will allow a wholeness of character and of life to emerge, which are
otherwise too fragmented, too one-sided. Toward the end of the novel, Bim
realizes that her ...
Merrill set the three acts of the play first in the England of the romantic poets in
1856, then in Chekovian Russia in 1896, then in modern-day California in 1956,
Tithonus progressing from young and poetic, to a middle-aged and world-weary ...
"a sense of Chekovian loss" (Bethlehem 174). She recalls a moment when she
believed that "the frontier had been reinvented and its shape was the subdivision.
" "I have difficulty now," she writes, imagining a childhood in which a man named
...
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To the Third Empire: Ibsen's Early Drama
The play depicts a mode of life denied knowledge of or access to the universal
content of human life and consequently stifling in its mediocrity, the Chekovian
condition of this most un-Chekovian of plays. Ibsen's analysis is performed with a
...
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Critical essays on Clifford Odets
In telling in "Paradise Lost" of the unhappiness suffered by two American middle
class families during these years of economic crisis, Mr. Odets has made much
more deliberate use of the Chekovian method than he did in "Awake and Sing!
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The Dramatist: The Journal of the Dramatists Guild, Inc
RN: Yes, that sense of displacement has a certain Chekovian quality. I've recently
done two adaptations of Strindberg - The Father and Miss Julie - and those plays
are also about displacement: social displacement, psychological displacement ...
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Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939
They don't know and they don't listen.'”15 Bates knew and listened. Dean R.
Baldwin emphasizes his Chekovian “focus on minor events and 'unimportant'
people” and 'oppressed people,'” and speaks of “his sympathy always residing
with the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHEKOVIAN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Chekovian is used in the context of the following news items.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Much of the fun in Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike comes from playing name-the-Chekovian-reference, a game that's obviously ... «TheaterMania.com, Jul 15»
BWW Reviews: Goodman's VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND …
On paper, this all sounds like a Chekovian drama, but there are laughs none-the-less. To start, Brooks plays Sonia for all the character is worth. «Broadway World, Jul 15»
Review: Alex of Venice
While the Chekovian "Cherry Orchard" symbolism is perhaps a little too on the nose, there's a lot to like about this end-of-your-20s ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jun 15»
New York: Where We Live by David Graham at Laurence Miller Gallery
This exhibition prominently features almost a dozen images from “Alone Together: Life on an Island in Maine”, his very moving, Chekovian ... «The Eye of Photography, May 15»
San Andreas review: The end of the world should be more fun than …
Oh, this must, we muse, be a Chekovian dam over the fireplace. At some point in the next hour the unfortunate structure will be so much rubble. «Irish Times, May 15»
90s Nirvana: The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect
And like most Chekovian guns, these items come into play during the storyline's final battle. The storyline also uses Hulk/Bruce Banner's old ... «Comicbook.com, Mar 15»
Redeployment v. Silence Once Begun
I don't mind the Chekovian foreshadowing (shoot a feral dog on page one, and a beloved pet is bound to get it by the end--either that or the ... «The Morning News, Mar 15»
Indian Summers star turns director and brings show to Brentford
... Channel 4's Raj era drama Indian Summers and at cinemas in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directs the 'Chekovian comic drama'. «getwestlondon, Mar 15»
Silver Age Silliness #3: Amazing Spider-Man
In a great bit of Chekovian-esque writing, the cheap costume ends up saving Spider-Man from being unmasked. In order to keep the suit from ... «Comicbook.com, Feb 15»
"A Body of Water" at the Kitchen Theatre
She dances with a nervous energy, suggesting one of those Chekovian souls whose deep desire is to spread their wings and soar but who ... «ithaca.com, Feb 15»
