MAGARSHACK, David, 1899-1977

Description

Translations (texts, adaptations, introductions, photographs, reviews, posters, theatre programmes, correspondence, dust jackets):

L Avilova, "Chekhov in My Life - A Love story" (1950/1989) //;

A P Chekhov, "The Cherry Orchard" (1955/1968/1974) //, "Four Plays" (1969) //, "Platanov" (1965) //, "Plays and Stories" (1956) //, "The Seagull" (1952) //, "'The Seagull' Produced by Stanislavsky" (1952) //, "Selected Tales" (1961) //, "Three Sisters" (1968) //, "Uncle Vanya" (1956) //;

F M Dostoevskii, "The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky" (1955) //, "The Brothers Karamazov" (1958) //, "Crime and Punishment" (1951) //, "The Devils" (1953) //, "Dostoevsky's Occasional Writings" (1963) //, "A Gentle Creature" (1950) //, "The Idiot" (1956) //;

N V Gogol, "After the Play" (nd) //, "Dead Souls" (1961) //, "The Government Inspector" [1952] //; Goncharov, "Oblomov" (1954) //; M Gorky, "The Lower Depths" (1960) //;

A Herzen, "The Development of Revolutionary Ideas in Russia" (nd) //;

N S Leskov, "The March Hare and Other Stories" (1949) //, "Selected Tales" (1961) //;

A N Ostrovskii, "Easy Money and Other Plays" (1944) //, "Even A Wise Man Stumbles" (1944) //, "House of Cards" (1963) //, "Larissa" ("A Girl Without Dowry") (nd) //, "One Happy Family" (1946) //, "The Storm" (1960) //;

B L Pasternak, ["Letters to Georgian friends"] (1968) //;

M E Saltykov-Shchedrin, "The Pompadours" (1985) //;

I I Shneider, ["Isadora Duncan - The Russian Years"] (1968) //;

"Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stage" (1950/1961) //;

[L N & S A Tolstoy Diaries and Letters] //;

I S Turgenev, "The Torrents of Spring" (1959) //;



Biographies of writers etc and other original works (texts, correspondence, lectures, reviews, photographs, lists, dust jackets, associated articles):

"Chekhov: A Life" (1952) //, "Chekhov's Albatross" //, "Chekhov the Dramatist" (1952) //, "Tchehov in Britain" (1954) //, "Oxford Lecture" (1930) //, "Chekhov and His Producers" in "The Penguin New Writing, 37" (1949) //, "The Real Chekhov: An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays" (1972) //, "Sakhalin Island" //, "The Seagull" //, "Chekhov and Solovyov" //; "Death Cuts a Caper" (1935) //, "Dostoevsky" (1962/1963) //, "Crime and Punishment" //;

"Gogol" (1957) //;

"A History of Russian Literature" //; "A House On Fire" //;

"Alexander Ostrovsky - 1823-1948" //, "Alexander Ostrovsky - Founder of Russian Theatrical Tradition" //; "Preface to 'The Storm' and Two Other Plays by Alexander Ostrovsky" //;

"The Progress of Pasternak" in "The Nation" (1958) //; "Pushkin: A Biography" (1967/1968) //, "Pushkin's Prose" //; "The letters of Alexander Pushkin" by J T Shaw (review in New York Times Book Review) (1964) //;

"Russian Comedy" (1951) //; "Russian Transliteration" //;

"Soviet Drama" (nd) //; "Stanislavsky: A Life" (1950) //;

"Three Dead" (1937) //; "Biography of Tolstoy: Statement of Purpose" //; "'War and Peace' and the Tolstoys" in The Sunday Times (1972) //; "The Translator's Art" in The Times Educational Supplement (1969) //; "General Principles of Translation from the Russian" //; translation notes (animals) //; notes and articles on translation //; A Note on Translation of Chekhov" //; "The Mystery of the Red Coffin: On Translating from the Russian" (also Piers Plowright, BBC) (1957/1980/1982) //; "Turgenev's Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments" (1959/1984) //, "Turgenev: A Life" (1954) //;



3 Albums of newspaper cuttings on the above works //; list of contents of 000-000 //.

Translations: Chekhov, "A Boring Story", "Platonov", "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya"; Dostoevskii, "The Idiot", "Dostoevsky's Occasional Writings"; Gorky, "Childhood", "The Lower Depths", "Mother"; Leskov,"Selected Tales"; B Pasternak, "Letters to georgian Friends"; I I Schneider, "Isadora Duncan"; Turgenev, "Selected tales of Ivan Turgenev", "The Torents of Spring", "Five Russian Plays".

Biographies and other original works:

"The Art of Translation", "Chekhov the Dramatist", "Gogol: A Great Russian Humorist", "Gogol: A Life", "Pushkin", "The Seagull Produced by Stanislavsky", "The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama", "Turgenev: Literary Reminiscences & Autobiographical Fragments"



Correspondence to and from David & Elsie (1900-1999) Magarshack:

B Ashmore (4, 1973) //; Associated Rediffusion (also C Coke, A Kearey) (4, 1964) //;



D Bider (1977) //; B Blom (4, 1963-1964) //; C Bloom (1981) //; C Bourne (1989) //; British Broadcasting Corporation (31, 1944, 1961-1973, 1991) //;



Caedmon Records (8, 1964-1968) //; A Cairns (2, 1949) //; L Casson (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts) (2, 1943) //; E Craig (2, 1951, 1968) //; G Craig (14, 1951-1968) //; Curtis Brown (13, 1965-1974) //;



A Dinner (Lyric Players Theatre Belfast) (1978) //;



P Edwardes (Methuen London) (2, 1988, 1991) //;



D Farrer (Martin Secker & Warburg) (2, 1974) //; C Fox (Knightsbridge Theatrical Productions) (1985) //; J Freeman (New Statesman) (1963) //; F Freniere (nd) //;



Gale Research (also R Hartford, J A Gough) (2, 1992) //; P Garland (Chichester Festival Theatre Productions Company) (7, 1981-1989) //; J Gielgud (5, 1944-1945, 1954) //; S Gilman (1966) //; H Goldfinger (University of Chicago Press) (5, 1963-1964) //; V Gromeka (nd) //; Grove Press (also R Seaver, J Barkas, [?] Pearce, A Wood) (6, 1968-1969, 1974) //;



P Hall (2, 1953 [?], 1978) //; N Hen (1980) //; A Hewson (John Johnson (Authors' Agent)) (1990) //; A Hood (1978) //;



V Karavaeva (V Chapman) (2, 1979, nd) //; L Kislova (Vsesoiuznoe obshchestvo kul'turnoi sviazi s zagranitsei) (also [?] Morozov) (4, 1945, nd) //; M Kustow (Channel Four Television) (2, 1988-1989) //;



N Langley (1952) //; B Lehmann (4, nd) //; J Lehmann (1952) //; V Leigh (1944) //; M Leighton (nd) //;



D MacCarthy (1944) //; M Malleron (1948) //; S Mathias (Royal National Theatre) (2, 1992) //; N Mecklek (1980) //; J Mendelson (2, 1972-1973) //; M Meyer (1980) //; B Miles (Mermaid Theatre) (2, 1966) //; J Miller (2, 1988-1989) //;



Nadezhda [?] & husband [?] (2, 1945[?]) //;



Penguin Books (also E V Rieu, S Radice, D L Duguid, H Summers, R Baldick, A Lane, A Plaat, J Cochrane) (14, 1962-1965) //; M Pennington (Royal Shakespeare Company) 93, 1982-1986) //; R Perez (1990) //; H Pitcher (1978) //; M Philipson (Random House) (2, 1963) //; G Poggi (Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg) (1975) //; A Powell (3, 1978, 1980, 1992) //;



M Redgrave (4, 1944, 1978) //; [?] Rosenthal (1971) //; P Roth (2, 1981) //;



P Scofield (1964) //; Shigehito Kobayashi (2, 1953-1954) //; R H Stevens (1966) //; "Sunday Correspondent" (M Hofmann) (1989) //; "Sunday Times" (R Lacey) (1972) //;



C Tomalin (1989) //; Tonao Takayama (8, 1954-1956) //;



R D Usherwood (Radio Times) (1967) //;



A Van Gyseghem (Van Gyseghem Productions) (nd) //; Victor Gollancz (also J Macgibbon, K Crossley-Holland) (3, 1963, 1973) //;



I Wardle (1985) //; Watford Civic Theatre Trust (nd) //;



A Yarmolinsky (1958) //;



Unidentified (2, 1949, 1952) //.



Printed matter (programmes, catalogues, books, journals, magazines, newspaper cuttings):

Programmes and catalogues: Chekhov, "Three Sisters" (1973) //, "Uncle Vanya" (A new version by Pam Gems) (Text and programme) (1979) //, "Uncle Vanya" (translated by C Garnett) //, "Uncle Vanya" (National Theatre) //, "Uncle Vanya" (Ashcroft Theatre) (1977) //; "Anton Chekhov" (NT The Cotteslow Theatre) (1984) //; "Anton Chekhov" (NT Study Notes) //; F M Dostoevskii, "The Possessed" (Almeida Theatre Company) (1985) //; "Moscow Art Theatre" (1968) //; J Munrow, "A Game of Fools" (1985) //; "The Oxford Playhouse Jubilee: 1923-1948" //; Playhouse Oxford: "30th Anniversary Souvenir" (1953) //; Pitlochry Festival Theatre: 13th Annual Season (1963) //; Hampstead Theatre Club: "Play Strindberg" (1972 [?]) //; Sadler's Wells theatre: The Moscow Arts theatre: "Cherry orchard", "Three Sisters", "Uncle Vanya", Souvenir Programme (1958) //; Tolstoi Exhibition (British Library Reference Division) (1976) //;

Books, journals and magazines: "Adam: International Review" (1981) //; "Delos: A Journal On & Of Translation" 1-6 (1968-1971) //; "Educational Theatre Journal: A Directory of Summer Theatres Sponsored by AETA Members" (1958) //; I Gruzdev, "A M Gorkii" (1946) //; "The Journals of Pierre Menard" 1,3 (1969) //; "The Notebooks of Pierre Menard" 1 (1969) //; "Observer" (1980) //; I E Repin, "Reproduktsii" //; P Russell, "A Note on Osip Emilievitch Mandelshtam" (1958) //; Shakespeare, "Richard III" //; "Shingeki" ("New Plays") (1954) //; "Soviet Literature" (1970/12, 1971/9, 1973/9, 1976/2, 1977/7) //;

Newspaper cuttings:

B Atkinson, "About the Drama: 'Cherry Orchard' and 'The Seagull'" //; J Barnes, "Good Dr Chekhov" //; J Bayley, "Tolstoy" (1971) //; M Binyon, "Moscow Diary" //; book of London letters to "Christian Science Monitor" (1929-1930) //; P Hall, "Cambridge Review" (1953) //; Listener (1975) //;G Lloyd-Evans, "Emasculated Shakespeare" (1976) //; P Peters, "Pam Gems, Piaf and domesticity" //; F T Wood, "English Prepositional Idioms" //.

Provenance

Magarshack, Elsie (July 1984, July & October 1985, August 1987, October 1991)

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