1890s Plays (Study Guide) - 1890 Plays, 1891 Plays, 1892 Plays, 1893 Plays, 1894 Plays, 1895 Plays, 1896 Plays, 1897 Plays, 1898 Plays (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 251. Not illustrated. Chapters: 1890 Plays, 1891 Plays, 1892 Plays, 1893 Plays, 1894 Plays, 1895 Plays, 1896 Plays, 1897 Plays, 1898 Plays, 1899 Plays, the Importance of Being Earnest, Arms and the Man, Lady Windermere's Fan, the Seagull, Cyrano de Bergerac, Ubu Roi, the Fortune Hunter, Uncle Vanya, Botan D r, Hedda Gabler, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, an Ideal Husband, Charley's Aunt, Salome, a Woman of No Importance, Spring Awakening, Kanyasulkam, Little Eyolf, the Devil's Disciple, a Marriage Proposal, Theatricals: Second Series, the Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, the Assumption of Hannele, Pelleas and Melisande, the Master Builder, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Gismonda, Is He Dead?, Candida, the Second Mrs Tanqueray, Guy Domville, the Death of Tintagiles, Arizona, the Liars, le Systeme Ribadier, the Beaver Coat, the Blind, Widowers' Houses, Trelawny of the 'wells', Barbara Frietchie, Interior, Margaret Fleming, When We Dead Awaken, Intruder, You Never Can Tell, John Gabriel Borkman, the Countess Cathleen, the Face at the Window, Earth Spirit, the Sign of the Cross, the Philanderer, Terra Baixa, Ben-Hur, the Man of Destiny, a Capital Federal, the Imprudent Young Couple, the Squire of Dames, a Midnight Belle, the Bauble Shop, the Butterflies, the Masked Ball. Excerpt: The Seagull (Russian: , Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. As with the rest of Chekhov's full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully-...