Compare the dramatic representation deployed by Ibsen and Chekhov in 'The Wild Duck' and 'The Cherry Orchard'. Which of the plays do you find to be the more convincing dramatization, and why?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:37:13
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 6 pages (1705 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 6 pages (1705 words)
Anton Chekhov was so bored by Ibsen's 'The Wild Duck' he remarked that "Ibsen does not know life" and that "Ibsen is no dramatist"
It might be argued that Chekhov felt Ibsen to be in some ways, as a thinker, too like himself.
Ibsen and Chekhov share a number of beliefs: individualism, sincerity, the loathsomeness of tyranny, freedom for women. Tolstoy even condemned the seagull for being like Ibsen: "mere verbiage - leading nowhere".
But …
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…decisive and incisive: sharper in focus and clearer in atmosphere.
Bibliography
Lucas, F. L.; The Drama of Chekhov, Synge, Yeats, and Pirandello Cassell & Company, 1963.
Ibsen: The Wild Duck: Kai Jurgensen: Harlan Davidson 1966: ISBN 0-88295-046-0
James McFarlane; Ibsen and Meaning; studies, essays + prefaces 1953-89: ISBN 1-870041-07-0
Brian, W. Downs; A Study of Six Plays by Ibsen Cambridge University Press, 1950.
Stephen, Haff; The Sensuous Chekhov. Magazine article American Theatre, Vol. 11, April 1994
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