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Within Vinony's link graph, The Seagull is referenced by 1,136 other articles, and connects out to Afrikaans, The New York Times and Pearce Quigley.
Vinony files it under 1896 plays, IMDb title ID not in Wikidata and Internet Broadway Database person ID not in Wikidata.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Written by
- Anton Chekhov
- Date premiered
- 17 October 1896
- Place premiered
- Alexandrinsky Theatre , Saint Petersburg , Russia
- Original language
- Russian
- Genre
- Tragicomedy
- Setting
- Sorin's country estate
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Wikidata facts
- Read free · Project Gutenberg
- #1754
- Image
- Moscow Art Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull 1898.jpg
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- first line
- Отчего вы всегда ходите в черном?
- Commons category
- Seagull (Chekhov)
- title
- Чайка
- date of first performance
- 1896-10-17
- publication date
- 1896-00-00
- inception
- 1895-00-00
- number of parts of this work
- 4
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Encyclopedic overview
The Seagull (Russian: Ча́йка, romanized: Cháyka) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts among four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev.
Like Chekhov's other full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully-developed characters. In contrast to the melodrama of mainstream 19th-century theater, lurid actions (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) are not shown onstage. Characters tend to speak in subtext rather than directly. The character Trigorin is considered one of Chekhov's greatest male roles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Seagull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.