Anton Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, he is considered to be one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
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Anton Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, he is considered to be one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. He practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: \”Medicine is my lawful wife\”, he once said, \”and literature is my mistress.’‘Theatre of mood’ is a term he used to refer to his play The Seagull, which he wrote after renouncing the theatre after the reception of the first performance in 1896. ‘The Theatre of Mood’ has been described as ‘the theatre of mood in the text’, with a ‘submerged life’ and ‘a theatre of the moods’. The Cherry Orchard is a play about the death of Lopin in the early 1900s. The play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry orchard. “The Theatre Of Mood” has been called ‘one of the most influential plays in the history of the theatre’; it is one of only a handful of plays to have been written in the last 50 years of the 20th century.
It is also the only play to feature a female lead, and the only one to be written by a female playwright. Theatre of Mood is also known as the ‘ Theatre of mood,’ a term coined by the playwright to describe his use of female characters in his plays. Theater of mood is the “theatre’ in which the reader is immersed in a world of text, with no conventional action in place of conventional action. The ‘atre�’ of mood can be seen as a kind of ‘mood’ or ‘temperature’ – a state of mind that the reader can experience by reading the text. The theatre is theatre is the place where the reader ‘experts’ can ‘get to know’ the author. ’’Theatre is a place of moods and moods, and it is the theatre that gives the reader a sense of place in the world’ ’theatre is where the artist gets to live’ ‘‘”Theatre” is the role of an artist to ask questions, not to answer them,” he said in a letter to his brother Alexander in 1892. ”The role of the artist is to ask Questions, not the answer to them.” ‘In the theatre, the artist asks questions and the artist answers them, not answers them’
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