文档介绍：The Sea-Gull
The Sea-Gull
by Anton Checkov
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The Sea-Gull
CHARACTERS
IRINA ABKADINA, an actress
CONSTANTINE TREPLIEFF, her son
PETER SORIN, her brother
NINA ZARIETCHNAYA, a young girl, the daughter of a rich
landowner
ILIA SHAMRAEFF, the manager of SORIN'S estate
PAULINA, his wife
MASHA, their daughter
BORIS TRIGORIN, an author
EUGENE DORN, a doctor
SIMON MEDVIEDENKO, a schoolmaster
JACOB, a workman
A COOK
A MAIDSERVANT
The scene is laid on SORIN'S estate. Two years elapse between the
third and fourth acts.
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The Sea-Gull
ACT I
The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of
trees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in the
depths of the park. The avenue is obstructed by a rough stage, temporarily
erected for the performance of amateur theatricals, and which screens the
lake from view. There is a dense growth of bushes to the left and right of
the stage. A few chairs and a little table are placed in front of the stage.
The sun has just set. JACOB and some other workmen are heard
hammering and coughing on the stage behind the lowered curtain.
MASHA and e in from the left, returning from
a walk.
MEDVIEDENKO. Why do you always wear mourning?
MASHA. I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy.
MEDVIEDENKO. Why should you be unhappy? [Thinking it over] I
don't understand it. You are healthy, and though your father is not rich, he
has a petency. My life is far harder than yours. I only have
twenty-three roubles a month to live on, but I don't wear mourning. [They
sit down].
MASHA. Happiness does not depend on riches; poor men are often
happy.
MEDVIEDENKO. In theory, yes, but not in reality. Take my case, for
instance; my mother, my two sisters, my little brother and I must all live
somehow on my salary of twenty-three roubles a month. We have to eat
and drink, I take it. You wouldn't have us go without tea and sugar, would
you? Or o? Answer me that, if yo