SOURCE: "Irony and Theatricality in Chekhov's The Sea Gull" in Comparative Drama, Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 1981-82, pp. 366-80.
In this essay, Strongin contends that The Seagull parodies "the artificial and melodramatic conventions of so much of the theater of its day. "
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