The Cherry Orchard Summary
Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov The son of a grocer, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born into a family of modest means in Taganrog, Russia, in 1860. Anton's father, Pavel, made some unsound busine... Read more

The Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is among the major short-story writers and dramatists of modern times.During the last half of the 19th century the old order in Russia was crumbl... Read more

In the excerpt below, Fergusson illuminates the carefully built structure underlying the seemingly plotless Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard is often accused of having no plot whatever, and it is... Read more

In this essay, Gaskell examines Chekhov's "uniquely honest and sensitive vision of life" in The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov finished The Cherry Orchard in October 1903 and sent it ... Read more

In the following essay, the critics argue that "archetypes from myth and folklore" inform The Cherry Orchard and exert significant influence on its plot. In the climactic scene of The... Read more

In the following essay, Anderson detects "musical structures" in The Cherry Orchard. Kay Unruh Des Roches has recently demonstrated how an analysis of the verbal repetitions in the or... Read more

Critical Essay by Virginia Woolf He wasn't lazy. He liked to put things off as long as he could. He was a procrastinator. He got his copy done just in the nick of time for the New Yorker. They... Read more

Critical Essay by Clayton A. Hubbs and Joanna T. Hubbs [Chekhov] uses farce as a satiric device, to alienate us from a character so that we will not become too sympathetically involved with his spuri... Read more

Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch He wasn't lazy. He liked to put things off as long as he could. He was a procrastinator. He got his copy done just in the nick of time for the New Yorker. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Daniel Charles Gerould [The first production of] The Cherry Orchard was not a success. The press was, on the whole, favorable, but the reviewers were not enthusiastic, and both the ... Read more

Critical Essay by J. L. Styan [The first production of] The Cherry Orchard was not a success. The press was, on the whole, favorable, but the reviewers were not enthusiastic, and both the production ... Read more

Critical Essay by Bernard Beckerman In The Cherry Orchard, language is hardly shared by the characters. The merchant Lopakhin explains what the family must do in order to save their estate, but they ... Read more

The director's main task is to find meaning in the text and convey that meaning to the audience. The art of the director is to radically re-interpret the classic text in order to make it relevant for ... Read more