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| Name: |
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | | Birth Date: |
January, 1860 | | Death Date: |
July 2, 1904 | | Place of Birth: |
Taganrog, Russia | | Place of Death: |
Badenweiler, Germany | | Nationality: |
Russian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
dramatist, author |
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 Biography of Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov
16764 words, approx. 55.9 pages
 Anton Chekhov is today one of the most widely known authors of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Appreciated not only in Russia and the West but also in Asia, he was a master of the short story, and his innovations in the poetics of short prose fict... summary from source:
 Biography of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
1915 words, approx. 6.4 pages
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 crumbling. Political institutions were out of line with act...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Seagull Information
1,892 words, approx. 6 pages
 The Seagull (Russian: "Чайка" ("Chayka")), written in 1896, is the first of what are generally considered to be Anton Chekhov's four major plays. It centres on the romantic and artistic conflicts between four theatrical characters: the ingenue...
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 Sea Classics Heroic seagull
01/01/2003: 2,816 words, approx. 9 pages Obsolete at the start of World War Two, the Curtiss SOC Seagull series of biplanes would outlast its replacements and fight on until V-J Day During World War Two, the saga of the United States Navy's floatplane fleet reached its apogee. With the... summary from source:
Opera News Pasatieri: The Seagull
08/01/2003: 438 words, approx. 2 pages PASATIERI: The Seagull Shoremount, Gough, Behan; Ayers, Worth, Alvarez de Toledo; Manhattan School of Music Opera Orchestra, chorus, Gilbert. Texts. Troy 579-580 Thomas Pasatieri has written seventeen operas in a frankly emotional, lyrical vernacular, rich in passion and melody, though prominent figures... summary from source:
 AP News NJ drops wire plan to deter seagulls
1/29/2008: 370 words, approx. 1 pagesOfficials here are scrapping plans for a seagull shield made of fishing wire strung over the Boardwalk to protect diners from hungry gulls.Animal rights groups decried it and engineers said it might be risky, but business leaders in this gambling resort ultimately decided that the... summary from source:
The New York Observer Alan Cumming to Play Dianne Wiest's Lover in Seagull
1/3/2008: 270 words, approx. 1 pagesTony Award winner Alan Cumming will play Trigorin, the lover to Dianne Wiest's magnetic actress, Arkadina, in Anton Chekhov's 1896 play, The Seagull, at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street). It is to be directed by Viacheslav Dolgachev, artistic director of the Moscow New...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Richard Gilman
13,678 words, approx. 46 pages
In the essay below, which was first published in 1992, Gilman asserts: "The Seagull is about art and love not so much in the sense that they are its topics but in the sense that the entire play quite literally surrounds them, providing those abstractions with the dramatic context or field in which they can come to life, working themselves out as motifs."
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Critical Essay by James M. Curtis
10,527 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Curtis highlights Chekhov's contribution to modernism as exemplified by The Seagull.
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