Cherry Orchard, The — Anton Chekhov
First published 1904. Methuen, paperback, 2005, translated by Michael Frayn, 1978 (revised to 1990), pp 152 (main text pp 67). Chekhov called this play a comedy, but the original producer, Stanislavsky, insisted that it was a tragedy [p xxii]. So which is it? Both, of course. Like Shakespear’s Twelfth Night, there are elements of each. […]
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