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title: Anton Chekhov Bloom's Major Dramatists author: Bloom, Harold. publisher: Chelsea House Publishers isbn10 | asin: 0791052435 print isbn13: 9780791052433 ebook isbn13: 9780585248219 language: English Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,--1860-1904-- subject Dramatic works--Examinations--Study guides. publication date: 2000 lcc: PG3458.Z9D7213 2000eb ddc: 891.72/3 Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,--1860-1904-- Dramatic works--Examinations--Study subject: guides. Page 1 Anton Chekhov Edited and With an Introduction By Harold Bloom Page 2 CURRENTLY AVAILABLE BLOOM'S BLOOM'S BLOOM'S MAJOR BLOOM'S MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR SHORT STORY WORLD POETS DRAMATISTS NOVELISTS WRITERS Anton Chekhov Jane Austen William Falkner Geoffrey Chaucer Henrik Ibsen The Brontës F. Scott Fitzgerald John Donne Willa Cather Ernest Hemingway T. S. Eliot Arthur Miller Charles Dickens O. Henry Robert Frost Eugene O'Neill William Falkner James Joyce Robert Frost Shakespeare's F. Scott Herman Melville Langston Hughes Comedies Fitzgerald Flannery O'Connor John Milton Shakespeare's Nathaniel Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Histories Hawthorne J. D. Salinger Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Ernest John Steinbeck Poems Romances Hemingway Mark Twain & Sonnets Shakespeare's Toni Morrison Eudora Wealty Alfred, Lord Tragedies John Steinbeck Tennyson George Bernard Mark Twain Walt Whitman Shaw Alice Walker William Tennessee Wordsworth Williams BLOOM'S NOTES The Adventures of Death of a King Lear Pride and Prejedice Huckleberry Finn Salesman Lord of the Flies The Red Badge of Aeneid A Farewell to Macbeth Courage The Age of Arms A Midsummer Romeo and Juliet Innocence Frankenstein Night's The Scarlet Letter Animal Farm The Grapes of Dream Silas Mariner The Autobiography Wrath Moby-Dick The Sound and of Great Expectations Native Son the Fury Malcolm X The Great Gatsby Nineteen Eighty- The Sun Also Rises The Awakening Gulliver's Travels Four A Tale of Two Cities Beloved Hamlet Odyssey Tess of the Beowulf Heart of Darkness Oedipus Plays D'Urbervilles Billy Budd, Benito & Of Mice and Men Their Eyes Were Cereno, & Bartleby The Secret Sharer The Old Man and Watching God the Scrivener Henry IV, Part One the Sea To Kill a Brave New World I Know Why the Othello Mockingbird The Catcher in the Caged Bird Sings Paradise Lost Uncle Tom's Cabin Rye Iliad The Portrait of a Wuthering Heights Crime and Inferno Lady Punishment Invisible Man A Portrait of the The Crucible Jane Eyre Artist Julius Caesar as a Young Man Page 3 Comprehensive Research and Study Guide BLOOM'S MAJOR DRAMATISTS Anton Chekhov Edited and With an Introduction By Harold Bloom Page 4 © 2000 by Chelsea House Publishers, a division of Main Line Book Co. Introduction © 2000 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher. Printed and bound in the United States of America. First Printing 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anton Chekhov / edited and with an introduction by harold Bloom. p. cm.(Bloom's major dramatists) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7910-5243-5 1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 18601904Dramatic worksExaminations Study guides. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Series. PG3458.Z9D7213 1999 891.72'3dc21 99-15683 CIP Chelsea House Publishers 1974 Sproul Road, Suite 400 Broomall, PA 19008-0914 The Chelsea House World Wide Website address is http://www.chelseahouse.com Contributing Editor: Erica Da Costa Page 5 Contents User's Guide 7 Editor's Note 8 Introduction 9 by Harold Bloom Biography of Anton Chekhov 11 Plot Summary of The Seagull 14 List of Charactes in The Seagull 19 Critical Views on The Seagull Ernest J. Simmons on the First Production of The Seagull21 Robert Louis Jackson on the Importance of Art in The 23 Seagull Michael Heim on Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater 26 Jerome H. Katsell on Maupassant in The Seagull 28 Richard Peace on Shamrayev 30 Richard Gilman on the Characters and Their Art 32 Plot Summary of Uncle Vanya 35 List of Characters in Uncle Vanya 40 Critical Views on Uncle Vanya Nina Andronikova Toumanova on Stanislavsky and 42 Chekhov's Plays Eric Bentley on Chekhov and Melodrama and Farce 44 Sonia Kovitz on Hopelessness in Uncle Vanya 46 Irina Kirk on Uncle Vanya and Beauty 49 Gary Saul Morson on Yelena and Work 51 Richard Gilman on the Characters' Hope for a Better Life54 Plot Summary of The Three Sisters 58 List of Characters in The Three Sisters 63 Critical Views on The Three Sisters W. H. Bruford on Chekhov and Religion 66 John Gassner on Chekhov's Cautious Optimism 68 Siegfried Melchinger on the Symbolism of Moscow 71 Karl D. Kramer on Andrey and Chebutykin 72 Eugene K. Bristow on the Staging of The Three Sisters 75 Maurice Valency on Chekhov and the Combination of 77 Comedy and Tragedy

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Anton Chekov was known for his ability to create parodies, including the character of Trigorin--an outrageous self-parody. His works are examined in this volume with numerous critical essays on The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. A part of our Bloom's Major Dramatist
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