[Playscript]: The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

ISBN 10: 0811213625 / ISBN 13: 9780811213622

Verlag: Rosenstone/Wender, New York, 1980

Beschreibung

Playscript. Quarto. 86pp. Photomechanically produced sheets printed rectos only and bradbound into unprinted maroon plasticized wrappers. Just about fine. Produced by Williams' agents. Not published in book form until 1997.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 412592

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: [Playscript]: The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull
• Verlag: Rosenstone/Wender, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1980
• ISBN-10: 0811213625
• ISBN-13: 9780811213622
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand: Near Fine
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Inhaltsangabe

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).

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.