Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Chekhov always insisted that the five plays of his maturity that his audiences insisted were tragedies were simply developments, precisely in maturity, of the hilarious short farces of his youth. --Kenneth Rexroth, Chekhov, Plays, Classics Revisited (1968)


Recommended reading:
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Tales of Chekhov by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, review by Mona Simpson, The Atlantic Monthly, at Powell's Review-A-Day

Imitation of Life, by Lee Siegel, The Nation, December 13, 2004

A tour around Chekhov, review by George Walden of Chekhov: Scenes From a Life by Rosamund Bartlett, Telegraph, April 7, 2004