Shakespeare Night Presents: Anton Chekhov short stories (ii)

THIS READING

Last Monday 8/17/26, there were only two of us readers, so we adjourned after doing just one Chekhov story (The Death of a Government Clerk).
On Monday 8/24/26, I (Tom) would like to continue to remedy my woeful underexposure to Chekhov's stories. To round out my literary guilt, I have used AI to recommend a bundle of selections to fit a 90-min readaloud. Subject to any callouts of your favorites, we will go with:

o A Chameleon
o A Joke
o Misery
o The Student
o The Darling

The Constance Garnett translation of Chekhov's stories is available at:
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anton-chekhov/short-fiction/constance-garnett ,,, Search for "Start from the table of contents"

IF YOU ARE NEW...
At these Zoom meetings, we take turns reading aloud, paragraph by paragraph if it's a prose work, speech by speech if it's a play. (That is, we don't assign parts.) If it's a poem, we make a decision based on the poetic form.

If you have not read with us before, RSVP on the Meetup.com page and click that you will attend online. Then please log into the zoom call by 7. If you are not on the RSVP list or you arrive too late, you will not be allowed in.

CURRENT SHAKESPEARE-NIGHT SCHEDULE
We generally read one work on the first and third Mondays and another work on the second and fourth Mondays.

• On the first and third Mondays of each month, Tom Frenkel will host.
• On the second and fourth Mondays of each month, Peter Shenkin will host.
• On the fifth Monday of a month (if there is one), we sometimes hold an "open mic", where participants are encouraged to sing a song, tell a joke, read a poem, or whatever. Sometimes we continue reading a work. And sometimes we take a vacation.

GENERAL INFORMATION
If you RSVP "Yes" to a Meetup, the Zoom link will be visible on the meetup.com event page.

We often have an informal discussion preceding and following the reading.

FUTURE READINGS

• 1st and 3rd Mondays: TBD
• 2nd and 4th Mondays: TBD
• 5th Mondays: Next is 31 Aug 2026: TBD.