[Harai Golombs work is] A KEY TO CHEKHOV - Prof. Ronald Hingley (1920-2010), Chekhov Scholar and Biographer; Translator and Editor: THE OXFORD CHEKHOV A blast of fresh air [] this book [] gives audience, reader, actor and director all they need [] It breaks through the sludge that has formed in the Chekhov pool [] - From the Foreword by ... Read moreDonald Rayfield, Professor-Emeritus of Russian at Queen Mary College, University of London; Author. Chekhov: A Life; Understanding Chekhov [This] thorough, profound and innovative work on Chekhov is a model for teachers and students [] an inimitable contribution to our understanding of the very nature of literary and dramatic art. - Benjamin Harshav, Professor Emeritus of Comparative and Slavic Literatures, Yale University; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Author, Explorations in Poetics A unique and extraordinary accomplishment. Professor Golombs masterful study of Chekhov drama and theater [] will be in the pocket of everyone interested in Chekhov and theater. - Robert Louis Jackson, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University; Founding President, North American Chekhov Society. A celebration for the world of Chekhov studies. This book is [] a must for scholars, students, actors, directors, and the general Chekhov-loving public alike. - Vladimir B. Kataev, Professor; Chairman of the Chekhov Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Harai Golombs welcome study [ is] a worthy addition to Chekhov scholarship; [it] draws our attention to alluring new areas [] a wide readership is envisaged from drama and culture students and scholars to theatre goers and practitioners. - Cynthia Marsh, Emeritus Professor of Russian Drama and Literature, University of Nottingham. This book will undoubtedly be recognized as a major contribution, not only to Chekhov studies, [] but to literary studies generally. I am honored to endorse it with the greatest enthusiasm. - Hugh McLean, Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature, University of California, Berkeley The book [] is not only about one great playwright; it also deals with the way we can view theatre and its theory today. [It] is a work of art in itself - Patrice Pavis, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury UK; Professor Emeritus, Sorbonne 8; Author: Dictionary of Theatre; Editor of French edition of Chekhovs plays. Golomb does greater justice to the justice Chekhov himself does to the complexity of the human condition, defined as it is by potentials, realized and unrealized alike. [] invaluable to students at all levels and for directors, actors, and playwrights as well. NO ONE READS CHEKHOVS DRAMA BETTER. - Cathy Popkin, Professor of Russian, Columbia University; Editor, Norton Critical Edition of Chekhovs Selected Stories. Show Less