Query on Chekhov
Robert A. Rothstein
rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU
Sat Jan 4 03:28:31 UTC 2003
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere wrote:
>Is it true that Chekhov said "If a gun is hanging on the wall in the first
>act, it must go off in the last"? And if so, where did he say/write
>it? (I've already checked Bartlett's, Krylatye slova, etc.).
I haven't had a chance to check the reference, but according to Stacy G.
Langton of the Mathematical Association of America (sic! -- see http:
www.maa.org/reviews/harmonic.html):
>The actual quote from Chekhov is, "One can't put a loaded gun on the stage if
no one plans to fire it." From a letter to >Lazarev-Gruzinsky, [1 November]
1889; see Peter M. Bitsilli, Chekhov's Art: A stylistic analysis, Ardis, 1983
(ISBN: >0-88233-489-1), p. 42.
Bob Rothstein
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