ABSTRACT
. . .Chekhov in performances in English nearly always suffers from what seems to be some sort of notion we have that thinking is slow, that when you are, as it were, philosophizing you must go slow. Whereas, on the contrary, these characters in Chekhov, and in Shakespeare for that matter, think and speak in a stream of consciousness; it is not all deliberate, scored, timed, solemnized, full of wise saws and preachment.
