This week our lecture is presented by Boston University’s Translation Seminar Series. Our lecture is titled “Seeing Chekhov Whole: On Translating the Complete Plays of Anton Chekhov,” and features ...

The Russian great has much to say on the struggle and art of professional writing (Getty) I first encountered Chekhov’s letters when I took my lecturing job at the University of Kent in 2004.

It has been more than a century since the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov died, but his stories and plays read as if they had been written last week. His characters desperately search for happiness ...

The great Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) desperately needed money all his life. But maybe his constant need for work was what produced many of his greatest masterpieces. Chekhov had an ...

In Chekhov’s early plays you can chart the birth of 20th-century theatre. As a new season opens at the National Theatre, director Jonathan Kent explores the evolution of a genius Portmanteau seasons ...