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Compact, portable, and inexpensive, The Seagull Reader: Plays, Second Edition, offers 8 classic (and contemporary classic) plays, 2 of them--Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun--new to this edition.

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Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama. His works have long been cherished for their brilliant wit and unusual ability to provide striking insights into the human condition. In these stunning, individually published translations of three of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his groundbreaking dramas. This volume illuminates the timeless trials of art and love and bring Chekhov's memorable characters to life. Each of these three plays showcases the hallmark features of a Chekhov classic: clashing desires, complex family dynamics, the individual's loss of balance and sense of identity in the shifting eruptions of society and a modernizing Russia, and the angst of artistic struggle and ambition. Supplementing each of the plays are an account of Chekhov's life, a note on the translation, introductions to each work, and variant lines - often removed due to government censorship - which illuminate the context in which they were written and shed light on Chekhov's work as a playwright. These editions are the perfect guides to enriching our understanding of this great dramatist or to staging a production.

The Seagull Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The best-selling official for Novel that everybody is looking for. The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, authored within 1895 as well as created in 1896. The Seagull is usually regarded as the first of his 4 major plays. It dramatizes the artistic and romantic conflicts between 4 characters: the popular middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, as well as the son of her the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplyov.Though the character of Trigorin is regarded as Chekhov's best male role as Chekhov's other full-length plays, The Seagull is based in an ensemble cast of varied, completely developed characters. In distinctions to the melodrama of mainstream 19th-century theatre, lurid steps (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) aren't shown onstage. Characters tend to talk in tactics that skirt around problems instead of addressing them directly; quite simply, their lines are full of what's known in remarkable practice as subtext.The opening night of the very first creation was a popular failure. Vera Komissarzhevskaya, taking part in Nina, was so unnerved through the hostility of this market that she lost voice. The audience was left by Chekhov and spent the previous 2 actions behind the scenes. When supporters published to him the generation, later on, grew to become successful, he assumed that these were simply attempting to be sort. When Konstantin Stanislavski, the seminal Russian theatre professional of the moment, directed it inside 1898 for the Moscow Art Theatre of his, the play would have been a triumph. Stanislavski's creation became "one of probably the greatest incidents in the record of Russian theatre and among probably the greatest brand new advancements in the history of planet drama".Stanislavski's The Seagull was caused by direction to be perceived as a tragedy via overzealousness with the idea of subtext, while Chekhov intended it to become a comedy.

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Award-winning author April Pulley Sayre explores everyone's favorite impertinent birds--seagulls--examining their intelligence, behavior, and surprisingly widespread habitat in this STEAM nonfiction picture book. Did you know that seagulls sometimes live far from the sea--near a lake or farm, or even in a desert? Or that they are omnivores, eating everything from fish and clams, to grasshoppers and mice, and even to blueberries? Or that they dance? These birds are full of surprises! Join April Pulley Sayre as she poetically describes the curious behaviors and wide-ranging habitats of one of the most graceful birds to soar in the sky.