The Complete Plays

CONTENTS

Preface

Anton Chekhov’s Brief Life

Chronology of Chekhov’s Life

A Note on the Translation

Guide to Transliteration and Pronunciation

Introduction

EARLY EXPERIMENTS

Untitled Play (Without Patrimony [Disinherited] or Platonov)

Variants

Along the Highway

COLLABORATION

The Power of Hypnotism by Anton Chekhov and Ivan Shcheglov

HUMOROUS DIALOGUES AND PARODIES

The Fool, or The Retired Captain

A Young Man

Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights

An Ideal Examination

“Chaos-Vile in Rome”

A Mouth as Big as All Outdoors

Honorable Townsfolk

At the Sickbed

The Case of the Year 1884

A Drama

Before the Eclipse

The Sudden Death of a Steed, or The Magnanimity of the Russian People!

PLAYS

Swan Song (Calchas)

Variants

The Evils of Tobacco, First Version

Ivanov, First Version

Variants

The Bear

Variants

The Proposal

Variants

Ivanov, Final Version

Variants

Tatyana Repina

An Involuntary Tragedian (From the Life of Vacationers)

Variant

The Wedding

Variants

The Wood Goblin

Variants

The Celebration

Variants

The Eve of the Trial

Variants

The Seagull

Variants

Uncle Vanya

Variant

Three Sisters

Variants

The Evils of Tobacco, Final Version

The Cherry Orchard

Variants

APPENDIX: Lost and Unwritten Plays