num_pages: 71
description: The Seagull, a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play that, on its second, established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid the weariness of life in the country, the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperate love, with dreams of success and dread of failure. It is her son, Konstantin, who one day shoots a seagull; it is the novelist Trigorin who will one day write the story of the seagull so casually killed; but it is Nina, the seagull herself, whose life to come will rewrite the story.This new translation of The Seagull--made by Tom Stoppard for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic in 1997--was produced by The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City in 2001. The volume also contains an Introduction by Stoppard that indicates some of the problems translators have faced since the first English language Seagull in 1909
language: English
title: The Seagull
titlecomplete: The Seagull
characters: Constantin Gavrilovitch Treplev, Piotr Nikolaievitch Sorine, Nina Mikhailovna Zaretchnaia, Ilia Afanassievitch Chamraiev, Boris Alexeievitch Trigorine, Iakov, Macha, Irina Nikolaievna Arkadina, Evgueni Sergueievitch Dorn, Paulina Andreievna, Semion Semionovitch Medvedenko
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Drama, School, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Russia
ratings_count: 32013
places: Russian Federation
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux