SOURCE: "Stuffed Seagulls: Parody and the Reception of Chekhov's Plays," in Poetics Today, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1987, pp. 285-98.
In the essay below, Senelick surveys works that caricature and satirize Chekhov's dramas.
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