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Uncle Vanya is unique among Chekhov's major plays because it is essentially an extensive reworking of The Wood Demon, a play he published a decade earlier. [1] By elucidating the specific changes Chekhov made during the revision process—these include reducing the cast from almost two dozen down to nine, changing the climactic suicide of The Wood Demon into the famous failed homicide of Uncle ...
Lord of the Flies was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list and 25 on the reader's list. [24] In 2003, Lord of the Flies was listed at number 70 on the BBC's survey The Big Read, [25] and in 2005 it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels since ...
[1] [13] Years later, van Itallie applied himself to new renderings of The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya. In the introduction to Applause Books ' 1995 compilation of these, van Itallie asserts that he "worked on The Sea Gull , and later the other three plays, with a specially-made literal English translation and a ...
The Wood Demon (Леший, 1889)—a comedy in four acts; eight years after the play was published Chekhov returned to the work and extensively revised it into Uncle Vanya (see below) The Seagull (Чайка, 1896)—a comedy in four acts; Uncle Vanya (Дядя Ваня, 1897)—scenes from country life in four acts; based on The Wood Demon
[12] The characters Vanya, Sonia and Masha are middle-aged siblings named after Chekhov characters. [13] Their deceased parents were "college professors who dabbled in community theater". [39] The character names are borrowed from Chekhov plays. [40] Vanya is the protagonist in Uncle Vanya and Sonia is his niece.
Lord of the Flies at IMDb; Lord of the Flies at the TCM Movie Database; Lord of the Flies at Rotten Tomatoes; Lord of the Flies: Trouble in Paradise an essay by Geoffrey Macnab at the Criterion Collection; Time flies: A BBC2 TV documentary (1996) about the making of the 1963 movie, with interviews of Peter Brook and of the actors.
A rifle on display. Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed.
Sonya's Story [1] is an opera by the British composer Neal Thornton to a libretto based on the original Russian text of Anton Chekhov's 1899 play Uncle Vanya.The libretto reproduces passages from Uncle Vanya in English translation with additional spoken text by Neal Thornton.