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86 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1895
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鈥淭he conviction is gradually forcing itself upon me that good literature is not a question of forms new or old, but of ideas that must pour freely from the author鈥檚 heart, without his bothering his head about any forms whatsoever.鈥�This quote doesn鈥檛 actually have a whole lot to do with The Seagull but one of its characters鈥攁 character whom I didn鈥檛 even like very much, if I鈥檓 being honest鈥攕ays it in a soliloquy, which is the only time he seems to say anything interesting. But while this play does talk about books and literature and features writers and actors as characters and even contains a play-within-a-play, it is actually more about the things that 补谤别苍鈥檛 being discussed. Because that is sort of how Chekhov rolls, right? It is the layering of subtext that fuels the play鈥檚 energies.