Plays By Anton Chekhov
by Richard Nelson, Anton Chekhov

This book contains three full-length plays: THE SEAGULL, THREE SISTERS, and THE WOOD DEMON.

On THREE SISTERS: But what I have written is a farce.

--Anton Chekhov.

On THE SEAGULL: It's a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a landscape (view of a lake), lots of talk of literature, little action and 180 lbs of love.

--Anton Chekhov.

On THE WOOD DEMON: In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject a man who brings despondency and gloom to all those near him, who is not accessible to laughter and music and who, despite all this, is undoubtedly happy.

--Anton Chekhov.

On THE SEAGULL: It's a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a landscape (view of a lake), lots of talk of literature, little action and 180 lbs of love.

--Anton Chekhov.

On THE WOOD DEMON: In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject a man who brings despondency and gloom to all those near him, who is not accessible to laughter and music and who, despite all this, is undoubtedly happy.

--Anton Chekhov