LINKS

__**Study Guide to //The Seagull//**__ A good jumping off point for work on the characters in the play: []

__**Discussion of Neumeier's ballet //The Seagull//**__ Not sure the rest of you will find this quite as interesting as I did, but the choreographer for a ballet version of The Seagull has some very interesting insights into the themes behind the story, ensemble work, and Stanislavsky. Click on the link below and then on Ballet Talk under the video tab. []

__**Two links which help explain the "Decadent School" in theatre**__: []) [|Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_de_si%C3%A8cle]

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 * __And one more link describing 'The Decay of the Decadent School' - from the New York Times archives 1898__**:

__**Link to an interpretation of Arkadina's Hamlet quote (in terms of Shakespeare's play**__): []

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 * __11 Poems by Nekrasov__**:

Apart from Nekrasov, the blogger also talks about the singing and humming that Dorn & Sorin have in the play. []
 * __A blog about Nekrasov in //The Seagull// (may interest Dorn & Sorin as well):__**

__**Maupassant's "Sur L'Eau" or "Afloat"**__ This book is a collection of short stories by Maupassant. He is considered one of the first and finest authors of the short story form.

He was said to often eat in the restaurant under the Eiffel Tower, not because he particularly liked their food, but becuase it was the only place in Paris where he wouldn't have to look at the horrid structure.

Below is a link which has a peek into the book - translated from French. Mostly the introduction.

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The book appears to contain both the short story about the grain farmer and the woman wrapped in chains.

Interesting take on Russian/French writers. Some of what Tolstoy says seems to link to Arkadina's opininons, some to Dorn's, some to Treplief's ambitions. []
 * __Tolstoy on Maupassant__**:

__**Russian Lotto Game**__: As we suspected, very much like bingo. []