Staged narratives in A.P. Chekhov’s humorous play “The Bear”
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-3-51-59
Abstract
The article introduces the concept of “staged narrative”, which is defined as the story of a character in drama, recited by him at the moment of his presence on stage. The category is specified and divided into: intrigue-forming, autonomous and incorporated staged narratives. The research material is the text of A.P. Chekhov’s play “The Bear”. It is shown that the suggested category can be useful in study of composition, plot and the character system of a dramatic text. In the process of a comprehensive analysis of the characters’ narrative replicas, their characteristic worldviews, ethos and strategies of narrative are revealed, and the place of stage narratives for clarifying the characters of the storytelling heroes, as well as to define more convincingly the entire character system. The obtained conclusions can be extrapolated to Chekhov’s dramaturgy of the mature period, and the very technology of analyzing stage narratives can be successfully applied in the study of other drama texts.
About the Author
Ya. E. Krasnikov
I.D. Kobzon Institute of Theatre Arts; Russian State University for the humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yaroslav E. Krasnikov, postgraduate student
21, Botanicheskaya St., Moscow, 141446
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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For citations:
Krasnikov Ya.E. Staged narratives in A.P. Chekhov’s humorous play “The Bear”. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2024;(3):51-59. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-3-51-59
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