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Feb. 11th, 2011 04:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoception28. The Comedy of Errors
A. Chekhov's Later Stories (1888-1903)
Wasn't in the best mood for the former, but it passed the time. Probably his least baroque play, pun battles excepted - Shakespeare likes to have stuff falling out over the edges, but this one's quite streamlined.
Loved all the Chekhov, most of them even more than Logue. Garnett's very good with him - not head and shoulders better than V&P or Hingley, but she translated tons more. I really like this Modern Library volume - only complaint at all is that I still think '92 or '93 is a better organic cut-off. I guess The Steppe just has some traditional status as gateway to Major Chekhov, which perhaps it is, but "Gusev" or thereabouts is the gateway to Glorious, Hamlet-obsessed, Hopping Mad Chekhov, probably best read sequentially while up all night drinking tea.
A. Chekhov's Later Stories (1888-1903)
Wasn't in the best mood for the former, but it passed the time. Probably his least baroque play, pun battles excepted - Shakespeare likes to have stuff falling out over the edges, but this one's quite streamlined.
Loved all the Chekhov, most of them even more than Logue. Garnett's very good with him - not head and shoulders better than V&P or Hingley, but she translated tons more. I really like this Modern Library volume - only complaint at all is that I still think '92 or '93 is a better organic cut-off. I guess The Steppe just has some traditional status as gateway to Major Chekhov, which perhaps it is, but "Gusev" or thereabouts is the gateway to Glorious, Hamlet-obsessed, Hopping Mad Chekhov, probably best read sequentially while up all night drinking tea.
