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Kean, or Genius and Dissipation

Name: Chekhov Entire
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Kean

also: Кин, или Гений и беспутство, Kean

Play by Alexandre Dumas père about the actor Edmund Kean, performed at the Korsh Theater for Solovtsov's benefit -- the subject of the theatrical review in this range.

Reading notes

To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 15 January 1889. Moscow. §3 I am ready to finish it off with Kean's words: "Beat Ivanov, beat him with sticks!"
Chekhov quotes (with the surname swapped in) a line from Alexandre Dumas pere's play "Kean, or Genius and Dissipation", which he had reviewed years earlier in a Korsh Theater notice already in this corpus; see the parallel allusions entry for the full echo.

Mentioned in 2 works (3 mentions)

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 2 mentions

§1266 Kean, or Genius and Dissipation
§1267 Kean

To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 15 January 1889. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§3 Kean