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Course Description

A writer should not look for answers; a writer should ask “the right questions,” Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) believed. His training as a physician made him think “clinically” about his characters. While Chekhov was not interested in the illness in general but in the individual complications of each particular case within the dreary Russian reality, his characters and their dramatic conflicts are broadly acknowledged as universal. We will study the relationship between the particular and the universal in The Seagull (1898), Uncle Vanya (1899), The Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904) and a selection of Chekhov’s best known short stories.

Notes

For the first class meeting, please read “Ward #6” in Chekhov’s Selected Stories.
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