"The Sea-Gull" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is a play set on a rural estate where tensions rise among artists and those who love them. It’s about Irina Arkadina, a famous actress, her son Constantine Treplieff who wants to be a playwright, and Nina Zaryechtnaya, a young woman who dreams of acting. The play begins as they prepare for Constantine’s new play, revealing feelings of jealousy, unfulfilled love, and arguments about what makes good art. Masha is unhappy and always wears black, Constantine argues with his mother, and Nina attracts the attention of both Constantine and a famous writer named Boris Trigorin, as the characters deal with their longing for love and recognition, but real life keeps getting in the way.
The Sea-Gull
By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
On a Russian estate, artists grapple with fame, love, and disappointment as their lives intertwine in a web of unfulfilled desires.
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About the AuthorAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
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