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Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays in Their Cultural Context

By (author) Jim Curtis

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the writerâ€™s four great plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard in their cultural context. This book explores how Chekhovâ€™s historical situation as a non-aristocratic writer gave him an intense awareness of his relationship to the past. Chekhov had a very literary imagination and thus an essential feature of his work is the way he used intertextuality to incorporate and react to the work of his predecessors. Chekhovâ€™s plays therefore lend themselves to analysis that uses Harold Bloomâ€™s theory of the anxiety of influence. Applying these principles make it possible to give coherence to Chekhovâ€™s. The anxiety of influence was a pervasive factor in Chekhovâ€™s evolution, and explains why Chekhov used intertextuality more frequently, and to greater effect, than any of his contemporaries. Close study of Chekhovâ€™s four great plays shows that they have a hitherto unrecognized stylistic alternation. â€˜Chekhov the Anxious Playwrightâ€™ makes extensive use of recent Russian scholarship (including dissertations) on Chekhov and synthesizes it with Western scholarship to produce a general understanding of his plays in their cultural context. It will be the first major book that brings together both a wide range of scholarship and as well as literary theory to analyze Chekhovâ€™s plays. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre history and Russian literature.

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