The Seagull | The Seagull: An Overview

In this essay, the author provides an overview of Chekhov's play.

Any comedy where the young hero destroys his life's work and then himself, where the heroine is abandoned pregnant and unhinged, while the survivors bask on in their own egotism, must be considered highly innovatory. Apart from its black comedy, however, Chekhov's The Seagull has many other modern features. It is full of ''intertextuality,'' incorporating or alluding to a great deal of Hamlet, to Faust, to Guy de Maupassant and to Chekhov's own prose. It was also...

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