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Article: `SNEEZE' EVIDENCE SHORT COMEDIES PEPPERED CHEKHOV'S WORKS.(Sports)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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Why Anton Pavlovich! Whatever has come over you?
All this agitated action, this farcical violence, this crazed satire, this explosive sexuality, this top-of-the-lungs rage! Can they truly be the products of Anton P. Chekhov (1860-1904), celebrated the world over for his subtle, introspective, quiet - and lengthy - tragicomedies?
One tends to forget that the Russian master wrote about a dozen short comic pieces for every long and serious drama in his collected works. In terms of quantity if not quality, ``The Seagull, ``Uncle Vanya,'' ``The Three Sisters'' and ``The Cherry Orchard'' are the true oddities of the Chekhov oeuvre. Measured in pounds of ...