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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Officials 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...
Tony 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...
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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