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A Fresh Look at Chekhov.(Anton Chekhov)
From: Newsweek International
Date: 20030421
Author:Pepper, Tara
When Chekhov lay dying in a spa town in Germany's Black Forest, his doctor ordered oxygen, only to have the playwright insist it was too late and request a bottle of champagne instead. It was a curiously appropriate end to the life of a man whom the celebrated English actor Michael Pennington describes as "a strange, eccentric, driven oddball." Now, on the eve ofthe centenary of Chekhov's death, Pennington's textured new biography, "Are You There Crocodile: Inventing Anton Chekhov" as well as U.K. revivals of two of Chekhov's best-known works- -reveals complex new layers to the ...
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