Essays About Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Beggar” is set in nineteenth century St. Petersburg. In this story, he presents a moral tale in which a cunning beggar named Lushkov succeeds in life by using his wit cleverly and taking advantage of others in society. Like his other short stories, “The Beggar” is written in the third…
LUBOV. Oh, my sins. … I’ve always scattered money about without holding myself in, like a madwoman, and I married a man who made nothing but debts. My husband died of champagne–he drank terribly– and to my misfortune, I fell in love with another man and went off with him, and just at that time–it…
A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. SONYA: What can we do? We must live out our lives. Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live all through the endless procession of…
A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. VERSHININ: Yes. How strange everything really is! When the fire broke out, I hurried off home; when I get there I see the house is whole,…
A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. VOINITSKY: The Professor as usual sits in his library from morning till night– “Straining our mind, wrinkling our brow, We write, write, write, With no respite…
A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. ASTROFF: I have my own desk there in Ivan’s room. When I’m simply too worn out to go on with my work, I drop everything and…
Realism is the movement toward representing reality as it is, in art. Realistic drama is an attempt to portray life on stage, a movement away from the conventional melodramas and sentimental comedies of the 1700s. It is expressed in theatre through the use of symbolism, character development, stage setting and storyline and is exemplified in…
Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860 in Taganrog, Russia, the third of six children. His father, Pavel, was a grocer and his mother, Yevgeniya, was the daughter of a cloth merchant. In1875 Pavel”s business failed and, threatened with imprisonment, he fled to Moscow. Yevgeniya remained behind with Anton and his younger siblings, but…
