The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's the Sea Gull - Couverture souple

Williams, Tennessee

 
9780811213622: The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's the Sea Gull
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0811213625 ISBN 13 : 9780811213622
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997

Synopsis

From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation of Chekhov's The Sea Gull, never before available to the general trade. The Notebook of Trigorin is faithful to Chekhov's story of longing and unrequited love. Set on a provincial Russian Estate, its peaceful environs offer stark contrast to the turbulent lives of its characters. Constantine, a young writer, must compete for the attention of his mother, a self-obsessed, often comical aging actress, Madame Arkadina, and his romantic ideal, Nina. His rival for both women is Trigorin, an established author bound to Arkadina by her patronage of his work, and attracted to Nina by her beauty. Trigorin cannot keep himself from consuming everything of value in Constantine's life. Only in the final scenes do all discover that the price for love and fragility can be horribly high. But if the words in The Notebook of Trigorin are essentially Chekhov's, the voice belongs firmly to Tennessee Williams. The dialogue resonates with echoes of the themes Williams developed as his signatures-compassion for the artistic soul and its vulnerability in the face of the world's "successfully practiced duplicity" (Act I).

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À propos des auteurs

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays--The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions--we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.



Allean Hale, writer and poet, was the leading authority on the early life and late plays of Tennessee Williams.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811213625
ISBN 13 
9780811213622
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Éditeur
Hale Allean
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Personne responsable
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