Ivanov

Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf. After graduating in medicine from Moscow University in 1884, he began to make his name in the theatre with the one-act comedies The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding. His earliest full-length plays, Ivanov (1887) and The Wood Demon (1889), were not successful, and The Seagull, produced in 1896, was a failure until a triumphant revival by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. This was followed by Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904), shortly after the production of which Chekhov died. The first English translations of his plays were performed within five years of his death.

Tom Stoppard has made English versions of The Seagull (1997) and The Cherry Orchard (2009). His other translations and adaptations include The House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca), Undiscovered Country and Dalliance (Schnitzler), On the Razzle (Nestroy), Rough Crossing (Molnár), Largo Desolato (Havel), Heroes (Sibleyras) and Henry IV (Pirandello).

Plays

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead *

Enter a Free Man * · The Real Inspector Hound

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After Magritte * · Jumpers * · Travesties *

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land *

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour *

Night and Day · Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth *

Undiscovered Country

(adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Das weite Land)

On the Razzle

(adapted from Johann Nestroy’s Einen Jux will er sich machen)

The Real Thing · Rough Crossing

(adapted from Ferenc Molnár’s Play at the Castle)

Dalliance (adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Liebelei)

Hapgood · Arcadia

Indian Ink (an adaptation of In the Native State)

The Invention of Love * · Voyage: The Coast of Utopia Part I

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Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Part II *

Salvage: The Coast of Utopia Part III *

Rock ‘n‘Roll *

Television Scripts

A Separate Peace · Teeth · Another Moon Called Earth

Neutral Ground · Professional Foul · Squaring the Circle

Radio Plays

The Dissolution of Dominic Boot

“M” Is for Moon Among Other Things

If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank · Albert’s Bridge

Where Are They Now? · Artist Descending a Staircase

The Dog It Was That Died · In the Native State

On Dover Beach

Screenplays

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman)

Fiction

Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon*

*Available from Grove Press

ANTON CHEKHOV

Ivanov

in a new English version by

TOM STOPPARD

based on a literal translation by Helen Rappaport

Grove Press

New York

Adapation copyright © 2008 by Tom Stoppard

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