Anton Chekhov Research

Anton Chekhov was born on the 29 January 1860 and  was a Russian playwright. Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. He wrote different play such as The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters etc. Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre. The play The Seagull was produced in 1901. Chekhov's mother was a storyteller and entertained children. him and Stanislavski began to work together and also played a part in chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard. Anton Chekhov also playing a vital role in Russian society, according to Malaev-Babel. As a medical doctor, Chekov interviewed and treated thousands of political and criminal prisoners and settlers over the course of three months. Shocked by what he saw, he wrote a book titled The Island of Sakhalin documenting his experiences.  As a result of Chekhov's work on the census and book, Malaev-Babel observed, Russian society was confronted with their first exposure to the terrible living conditions and treatment of prisoners and settlers on the island. How he managed to develop his craft was during writing letters which he sent to his writing contemporaries and at the same time family he would discuss work and ideas he had about story craft. All the ideas he created and mentioned back in the 1800's are still valid today in the month of May 10, 1886 a letter to his brother Alexander who is also a writer was sent in which Chekhov jotted down 6 valid principles each story which is good should contain these are:
1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political social economic nature
2. Total Objectivity
3. Truthful descriptions of persons and objects
4. Extreme brevity
5. Audacity and originality: flee the stereotype
6. Compassion all looking as though they massive foundations to bring the pieces to life from the page and bring more essence or ingredients to the story so we see varied amounts of tones and emotions throughout the plays and layers such as using objectives and other tools as sources to develop and expand on the character we are playing and the play as a whole.