Books by Vera Gottlieb

This book examines the strangely neglected area of Chekhov's one-act plays, written between 1885 and 1903. Still frequently performed, they reveal many of the comic and distancing effects which are to be found in the major plays and tell us as much about Chekhov's philosophy as his use of theatre.

Translated from Anton Chekhov's short plays and adapted by Vera Gottlieb, this collection consists of four one-act plays. Each contains a wide spectrum of dramatic possibilities, and presented together the plays serve to form a coherent programme.