Narrative features of A. P. Chekhov's play "The Seagull"

The article is devoted to the debatable and little studied at the moment issue of the presence of narrative in drama and its special nature. The paper describes the existing approaches to the possibility of analyzing the narrative in the dramaturgical kind of literature, the specifics of Chekhov's dramaturgy, and also presents the results of practical analysis. The subject of the study is the narrative replicas of the heroes and characters of Chekhov's play "The Seagull", containing references to events and stories from the past, referred to by the author as "staged narratives". The purpose of the work is to classify these retrospective statements of the actors of the drama by the type of their connection with the main plot of the work. The key research methods are discourse analysis and narratological analysis (as its specific variety), descriptive method (used in the collection and systematization of observations on a literary text), as well as hermeneutic approach (necessary in the process of research interpretation of the analysis results). Thus, as a result of the analysis, staged narratives representing the background of the hero, off-stage and on-stage events, as well as stage narratives belonging to the category of autonomous are distinguished. The relevance and novelty of this research consists in the introduction into scientific circulation of the concept of "staged narrative" and its approbation within the framework of the analysis of a specific dramaturgical text.

poetics of drama, dramaturgy of Chekhov, narratology, narrative, staged narrative, event, plot, narrativity of drama, discourse, communication