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Title: Anton%20Pavlovich%20Chekhov%20(?????%20????????%20?????)%20(1860-1904)


1
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (????? ????????
?????)(1860-1904)
  • Presentation by Anna Kadnikova

2
Anton Chekhov
Medicine is my legal wifeLiterature is my
mistress
Anton Chekhov
  • Physician
  • Major Russian short story writer
  • Playwright

3
Early Years and Literature
  • Mother excellent storyteller
  • School life gained a reputation for satyrical
    comments, making up humorous nicknames
  • Wrote his own anecdotes and funny stories in
    adolescence

4
Early Years and Theater
  • Took part in amateur theatrical performances
  • First performance attended Jacques Offenbachs
    La Belle Helene
  • Spent virtually all his savings on tickets to
    theater!
  • First serious long play Fatherless
    (????????????) (destroyed)

5
Medicine, Prose and Drama
  • Medical School at Moscow State University
  • 1883 resigns due to sickness. Devotes the rest
    of his life to literature
  • Mainly wrote short stories they are considered
    the apotheosis of form
  • Playwrighting career brief but had a great
    impact on dramatic literature and performance

6
Major Plays
  • The Seagull (?????)
  • Uncle Vanya (???? ????)
  • Three Sisters (??? ??????)
  • The Cherry Orchard (???????? ???)

7
The Seagull
  • The first of four major plays.
  • Centers on the romantic and artistic conflicts
    between four theatrical characters.
  • First perfomance a famous failure
  • Staged by Stanislavsky sound success

8
The Cherry Orchard
  • Family of impoverished nobles whose beautiful
    cherry orchard (which they are attached to) is
    heavily mortgaged
  • Characters seek to find a way of saving the
    garden but cease to do so.
  • Merchant Lopakhin (his ancestors were serfs) buys
    the garden and lays an axe to it

9
The Cherry Orchard
  • Lopakhin Lay the axe to the orchard! Come and
    see the trees fall down!
  • Trophimov All Russia is our orchard!
  • New Epoch is Coming. Romanticism gives a way to
    Commercialism. The Past is never to return.
  • Chekhovs attitude pessimistic or optimistic?
    still causes arguments.

10
Uncle Vanya
  • Structurally and psychologically complex drama
  • Estate in 19th century Russia
  • Exploring complex relationships between people
  • Themes of weakness, delusion and despair, but
    courage and hope as well

11
The Three Sisters
  • Decay of the privileged class in Russia
  • Search for meaning in the modern world
  • Family that is dissatisfied and frustrated with
    its present existence

12
Chekhovs Talent and Manner
  • Selecting important moments from the trivial ones
  • Brevity and conciseness
  • Anti-ideological
  • Anti-pedagogical
  • Objectivity
  • Free artist

13
Chekhovs Talent and Manner
  • No blame for anybody
  • Acute delineation of human weaknesses and
    delights, of human psychology
  • Naturalist of the theater
  • Delineation of ordinary characters
  • Exceptional importance of dialogue
  • (What is said is more important that what is
    done!)

14
Chekhov and Stanislavsky
  • collaborators both paid closer attention to the
    important unsaid messages within the writing
  • Chekhov by many is acknowledged as someone who
    made Stanislavskys Theater famous
  • Some arguments. E.g., Cherry Orchard
    comedy(Chekhov) or drama (Stanislavsky)?

15
Chekhov About His Plays
  • You say you have cried at my
    playsBut this is not why I wrote them, it was
    Stanislavsky who turned them into cry-babies.I
    simply wanted to say to people honestly
    Understand, how bad and boring your lives are!
    People should understand this andcreate
    themselves another and better life. What is here
    to cry about?

16
Chekhovs Impact and Influence
  • Contemporary Russians celebrated Chekhov
  • International fame after World War I (Constance
    Garnetts English translations)
  • Immensely popular in the UK in the 1920s
  • In the US fame came later (through the
    influence of Stanislavskys method)
  • Many writers and playwrights used Chekhovian
    techniques throughout the XX century, almost none
    escaped his influence

17
Films and Theater Productions
  • Among many others
  • - Lanford Wilsons The Three Sisters(1997)
  • Emil Loteanus My Tender and Affectionate
    Beast(??? ???????? ? ?????? ?????)(1978)
  • Nikita Mikhalkovs Dark Eyes(1987)

18
Sources
  • Anton Chekhov Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    available at http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Ch
    ekhov
  • Three Plays of Absurd Anton Chekhov Available
    at http//www.theatrehistory.com/russian/chekhov00
    1.html
  • The Social Significance of the Modern Drama. Emma
    Goldman. Boston Richard G. Badger, 1914. pp.
    290-3.
  • ANTON CHEKHOV. available at http//www.imagi-natio
    n.com/moonstruck/clsc6.htm
  • Chekhovs Quotes. Available at http//www.notable-
    quotes.com/c/chekhov_anton.html
  • ????? ???????? ????? ???????????? ??????
    ??????? ??????????. ??????, 1998
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