The Seagull: Chayka

by Anton Chekhov

Overview

The Seagull is a play by Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909669642
Publisher:	Jiahu Books
Publication date:	01/05/2014
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.24(d)
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian author of plays and short stories. Although Chekhov became a physician and once considered medicine his primary career, he gained fame and esteem through writing, ultimately producing a number of well-known plays, including The Seagull and Uncle Vanya, and a large body of innovative short stories that influenced the evolution of the form.