A. R. Kugel, Russkie dramaturgi (Moscow: Mir, 1934), p. 120.
Jean-Louis Barrault, 'Pourquoi La Cerisaiel\ Cahiers dela Compagnie Barrault-Renaud 6 (July 1954), pp. 87-97.
Henri Bergson, Laughter, an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, tr. C. Brereton and F. Rothwell (New York, Macmillan, 1911), pp. 88-89.
M. Nevedomsky, 'Simvolizm v posledney drame A. P. Chekhova,' Mir bozhy 8, 2 (1904), pp. 18-19.
Kugel, op. cit., p. 125.
Ivan Bunin, O Chekhove (New York: Chekhov Publishing House, 1955), p. 216.
Andrey Bely, 'The Cherry Orchard,' in Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists, ed. and tr. L. Senelick (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), p. 92.
9. Ibid.
Vsevolod Meyerhold, Perepiska (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1976), p. 45; and 'Teatr (k istorii tekhnike),' in Teatr: kniga o novom teatre (St. Petersburg: Shivpovnik, 1908), pp. 143-45.
Eva Le Gallienne, At 33 (New York: Longmans, Green, 1934), p. 224.
9. The Theatrical Filter
Yu. M. Yuryev, Zapiski (Leningrad-Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1963), II, 135.
Aleksandr Blok, 'On Drama,' in Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists, ed. and tr. L. Senelick (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), p. 111.
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Pyesy (Moscow: Detskaya literat- ura, 1971), p. 104.
Boris Zakhava,Sovremenniki (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1969), p. 269-73.
VI. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko vedet repetitsiyu 'Tri sestry' A. P. Chekhova v postanovke MKhAT 1940 goda (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1963), pp. 149, 159, 189.
Michel St. Denis, Theatre, the Rediscovery of Style (New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1960), p. 53.
Quoted in Newsnotes on Soviet & East European Drama & Theatre III, 3 (Nov. 1983), pp. 2-3.
Jan McDonald, 'Production of Chekhov's plays in Britain before 1914,' Theatre Notebook 34, 1 (1980), pp. 25-36.
Quoted in ibid.
John Gielgud, Stage Directions (New York: Capricorn Books, 1966), p. 87.
Ibid., p. 95.
The Mew English Weekly (18 June 1936), pp. 194-95.
Quoted in Theatre Magazine (New York, April 1938), p. 44.
New Republic (28 Dec. 1942), p. 858.
Private letter of Arthur Miller to the author, 6 May 1981.
Gordon Rogoff, 'Fire and Ice: Lee Strasberg,' Tulane Drama Review (Winter 1964), pp. 152-153.
'Serban defends his "Cherry Orchard," ' New York Times
(13 Mar. 1977). See also Laurence Shyer, 'Andrei Serban directs Chekhov,' Theater (New Haven) (Fall/Winter 1981), pp. 56-65.
Peter Brook, The Empty Space (New York: Avon Books, 1969), p. 72.
Mel Gussow, 'Peter Brook returns to Chekhov's vision,' New York Times (19 Aug. 1981).
George Calderon, Two Plays of Tchekhof (London: Mitchell Kennerly, 1912), p. 8. For a fuller stage history of Chekhov's plays, see my essay 'Chekhov on Stage,' in The Chekhov Handbook, ed. Toby Clyman (Hamden, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985).
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