George Calderon

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George Leslie Calderon
Born2 December 1868
London, England
Died4 June 1915(1915-06-04) (aged 46)
Gallipoli
OccupationWriter
GenrePlays, translations
RelativesPhilip Hermogenes Calderon (father)
William Frank Calderon (brother)

George Leslie Calderon (2 December 1868 – 4 June 1915) was an English writer.[1][2][3] He was one of the most knowledgeable Englishmen of his generation about Russian life and literature.

Life

Calderon was born in

Times Literary Supplement.[4]

Calderon was the first person to translate into English and successfully direct a full-length play by Anton Chekhov (The Seagull, at Glasgow in 1909).[5][6] He also published notable translations of Chekhov and Ilya Tolstoy, and wrote several ballet libretti for Michel Fokine.

Between 1908 and 1910 Calderon worked closely with leaders of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. His plays The Fountain, The Little Stone House and Revolt were performed all over Britain between 1909 and 1913.

In 1914 Calderon succeeded in enlisting in the British army at the age of 45,

Gallipoli on 4 June 1915.[8][9]

The book Tahiti was posthumously published in 1921, to great acclaim, and in 1925 a production in London of Calderon's translation of The Cherry Orchard established Chekhov as a new force in the English theatre.

Works

  • The Adventures of Downy V. Green, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1902, novel)
  • Dwala: A Romance (1904, novel)
  • Woman in Relation to the State: A Consideration of the Arguments Advanced for the Extension of the Parliamentary Suffrage to Women (1908, political essay)
  • The Organisation of Buying: A Policy for Women (1911, political essay)
  • The Fountain: A Comedy in Three Acts (1911, play)
  • Two Plays by Tchekhof: ‘The Seagull’, ‘The Cherry Orchard’ (1912, translations)
  • Thompson: A Comedy in Three Acts (1913, play, written with
    St John Hankin
    )
  • The Little Stone House: A Play in One Act (1913, play)
  • The Maharani of Arakan: A Romantic Comedy (1915, play)
  • Tahiti (1921, travelogue)
  • Three Plays and a Pantomime (1922, plays)
  • Eight One-Act Plays (1922, plays)
  • The Brave Little Tailor, or Seven at a Blow (1923, adaptation of
    The Valiant Little Tailor, with William Caine
    )
  • Two plays by Anton Chekhov, 'The Seagull' and 'The Cherry Orchard', and one by Alfred de Musset, 'Perdican and Camille' ('On ne badine pas avec l'amour') (1924)
  • The Two Talismans: A Comedy in One Act (1928, play)

References

  1. ^ May, Derwent (2010). "The Rediscovery of George Calderon". London Magazine August/September 2010. pp. 73–75.
  2. ISBN 978-0198605348
    .
  3. ISBN 978-1999967604
    .
  4. ISBN 978-0007114498
    .
  5. ^ Miles, Patrick (2010). "Chekhov at 150: The "Hampstead Connection"". London Magazine June/July 2010. pp. 98–102.
  6. ISBN 0-521-38467-2
    .
  7. ^ Miles, Patrick (4 August 2014). "Calderonia, 4 August 1914". calderonia.org. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  8. ^ Lubbock, Percy (1921). George Calderon: A Sketch from Memory. London, Grant Richards Ltd.
  9. ISBN 978-1999967604
    .

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