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How we reinvented Chekhov; The great Russian dramatist died 100 years ago this week and his plays have never been more popular. That, says our theatre critic, is because we have recast Chekhov as an English country gentlemen instead of the blazing social

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20040712
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Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH

ANTON Chekhov, the Russian doctor who wrote plays and short stories as a sideline, expired a century ago this week at the age of 44. "I am dying," he accurately observed in a German hotel in Badenweiler on the night of 15 July, 1904.

A doctor was called; he gave a camphor injection and ordered champagne.

Chekhov gazed at the glass, drank it down, lay back and died.

Although we in Britain have revived and revered his drama for the better part of the past century, and adored his short stories, we have grossly underrated his socio-political ...

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How we reinvented Chekhov; The great Russian dramatist died 100 years ago this week and his plays have never been more popular. That, says our theatre critic, is because we have recast Chekhov as an English country gentlemen instead of the blazing social

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