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Sea Gull »
Authors: Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Fred Eisemann (Translator), Oliver F. Murphy
ISBN-13: 9780828314541, ISBN-10: 0828314543
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Branden Books
Date Published: December 1913
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Anton Chekhov
Chekhov was one of the greatest playwrights and short story writers ever born.
Book Synopsis
Great Russian playwright's tragic masterpiece portrays the inner anguish of a tormented artist who burns with unrequited love. Acclaimed as a prototype of 20th-century drama, it brilliantly reveals the universal tragedy of ruined hopes and dreams.
Table of Contents
| Anton Chekhov: 1860-1904 | v | |
| Plot | xi | |
| Commentary | xx | |
| The Seagull in context | xx | |
| The seagull and the enchanted lake | xxv | |
| The play-within-the-play | xxviii | |
| Time and memory; youth and age; sleep and dream | xxxiii | |
| Art and life; love and destruction | xxxvi | |
| Comedy or tragedy? | xxxix | |
| Problems of translation | xli | |
| Critical perspectives | xlvi | |
| The Seagull in production | liv | |
| Further Reading | lxxvii | |
| Translator's Introduction | lxxix | |
| A Note on the Translation | xciii | |
| Pronunciation of the Names | xcvii | |
| The Seagull | 1 | |
| Notes | 68 |
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