Anton Chekhov Research Paper

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, Ukraine on January 17th in the year 1860. Today he is remembered as a playwright and one of the masters of the modern short story. He was the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf who had bought his freedom, that and that his

Discuss the above quote with reference to your experiences of preparing to direct/design a Chekhov play.

On September 9th 1828 Leo Tolstoy was born. Tolstoy was the youngest of four boys. In 1830 Leo’s mother passed away. Seven years later his father died as well. Leo was taught mostly at home by French tutors. After failing out of school Tolstoy went back to his parent’s estate to become a farmer. He would soon fail at this as well. Tolstoy then joined the army in 1854 as a junker where he fought in the Crimean War. As a junker he lots of free time. He used this free time to

During the mid-century of American theatre, the curtain rose to reveal a new and different type of performance. Audience goers were used to the stylized works of Anton Chekov and George Bernard-Shaw, whose European classics were constantly being produced in the United States. Actors, scenery, and costumes were limited to the refined themes of classical acting. Theatre was growing bland with each revival. Nothing was being done to push the envelope, until American writers claimed the stage. Authors including Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman and Lorraine Hansberry brought an element of reality to the theatre. Their works have gone down in history and their influences on

He simply states that “she was a tall, erect woman with dark eyebrows, stately and dignified and, as she said of herself, intellectual.” She isn’t described as beautiful woman and the statement that she thinks of herself as intelligent gives the reader the impression that she is arrogant and the description makes her sound hard and maybe even unloving. What would have happened though if Chekhov had allowed the wife to be a main character and showed her as loving him deeply and missing him while he was gone on his trips? The reader would have felt sympathy for her and this story may have become one simply of an affair and not one of love. This is why both authors used a third person narrator. This allowed a round character which the reader could sympathize with and even forget the sinfulness of his/her endeavors.

The passage of time is the lens through which characters Anna and Dmitri’s relationship matures in Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Little Dog”. In the story, Anna and Dmitri begin having an affair out of boredom with their own lives, which eventually blossoms into a loving relationship. Anna and Dmitri’s relationship does not seem like it will have a chance of surviving; Anna is much younger than Dmitri, they live in different cities, and they have spouses, and are a part of different social classes, and yet they are able to overcome these differences to be together. It is only as time goes on that Anna and Dmitri realize the importance of their relationship and love for each other. However, the passage of time is seen as a linear change in the story and contradicts to the unconventional manner in which Anna and Dmitri’s relationship evolves.

After the reading the book of the “The Death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy the reader can conclude that not everyone lives a happy life. People can go from being happy to sad in just an instant. This story teaches the reader that not everyone is going to be there in the hard moments, only those who truly appreciate and understand the person in pain will be there supporting. Leo Tolstoy was very up forward on his stories. He usually did not watch what he said. Many people might say his theme and characters role are affected by the life he lived. Every character has their own role and meaning. For example, those who have read any background of Tolstoy can say that he is very similar to Ivan Ilych. Tolstoy lived tough life his parents past away

At the age of 25 Konstantin was becoming recognised as an amateur actor. It is also at this point in 1888 he co-founded a society of literature and art. He preformed plays by Pushkin and Moliere among others. This is also where he got the majority of his directing experience.

For centuries, there have been doubts about translating works of literature, but in Chekhov’s, The Lady with the Dog which today is his best known, most translated short story. Chekhov tells the story of a chance meeting between Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeevna, both on vacation and both without their spouses. We get the feeling these two characters feel their lives are boring and mundane. When these two empty hearts meet they capture a glimpse of happiness that fines them accidental in love. Chekhov’s story takes place in late nineteenth-century Russia were marriage arrangements and social status are popular. We will be analyzing Chekhov’s story, The Lady with the Dog, and two other translations. By using Chekhov’s story Lady with the Dog and two other translations, it is my hope to show how important translation is to society. Since the beginning of time humans has found a way to communicate, translating works of literature makes communication possible; although words sometimes get miss translated we gain the culture of others.

Konstantin Leont’ev, a great Russian writer in his own right, set out to observe when Russian literature had ended its golden period. He concluded that it was well after writers like Pushkin, and was well down in the dreary dregs when it reached the writings of Dostoevsky. He claimed that Dostoevsky wrote in the “decay

Anton Chekov’s personal life shaped his writing immensely. The plotline of Chekov’s story, The Lady with the Dog is based on his life experiences. On the 25th of May in 1901, Chekov married his wife Olga Knipper, a stage actress. Together they maintained a long distance relationship; Chekov was living mainly in Yalta and Olga in Moscow as she continued to seek her acting career (Hingley). While Chekov and Olga remained separated, they continued to uphold a stable marriage as they lived apart for most of the year.

“On his return to Moscow, he explored his new psychological approach in his production of HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Hamsun" Knut Hamsun's HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_(arts)" Symbolist play The Drama of Life.” (Konstantin Stanislavski Wikipedia) His most popular production that he worked on was Maeterlinck's The Bluebird, which he prepared for by using improvisation and other exercises to help stimulate the imagination of the actors. Konstantin directed successful adaptations of the plays Uncle Vanya in 1899, Three Sisters in 1901, and The Cherry Orchard in 1904, all plays made by Anton Chekhov. And on his return to the city of Moscow in August of 1924, Konstantin revised his autobiography with the help of

Fyodor Mihailovitch Dostoevsky was born on October 30th 1821, in the Moscow hospital for the poor where his father worked as a physician. The living Quarters which were provided for the family by the hospital were far from being adequate. Although the Dostoevsky originally came from the gentry, their financial status had not been promising. Existing on the edge, of poverty, Fyodor's childhood was lonely and overshadowed by the depressing atmosphere of the surroundings of the hospital and the constant quarrels at home. The ill temper of old Dostoevsky did little to bring happiness into the unfortunate circumstances in which the family had to live. Upon the death of his mother in 1837, Dostoevsky was sent to St. Petersburg to attend the College

In 1867, while working on the novel The Gambler, the most autobiographical of his novels, Dostoevsky met and fell in love with Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, his 22-years old stenographer. After wedding in that same year, Dostoevsky and Anna left Russia and they spent several years traveling in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland until 1871. Abroad he wrote The Idiot (1868-69), and The Possessed (1872) -- both dealing with the deep philosophical and ethical matters. When The Possessed turned out to be a success, he returned to Russia. 1876 found Dostoevsky embarking upon another monthly publication, The Diary of a Writer, in which he gathered together stories, polemics, replies to his critics, and journalistic commentary on Russian news items such as the latest

Tolstoy was a multi-dimensional man. In his long career he had been a teacher and educational theorist, a philosopher and social critic, a successful farmer and paterfamilias, a soldier, and a prophet. Above all, however, he was a great artist, and it is on his fiction that his fame at present rests. The literary career of this "great writer of the Russian land" (as his contemporary Turgenev called him) may be divided into three parts: the early period of literary apprenticeship (1851-63), the period of the great novels (1863-77), and the later period of preoccupation with the message of his religious teaching (1878-1910). The works of the early period may be regarded as the "school" in which Tolstoy taught himself to write. He isolated the themes and developed the literary