Anton Chekhov’s Intertext in Tennessee Williams Plays: An Analysis of the National and Literary Concepts

Student: Lazareva Anastasiia

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The work analyses the specificity of the transformation of themes, images, plot moves and ideas borrowed from A.P. Chekhov in T. Williams' drama under the influence of the national literary tradition, culture and the author's concept of "plastic theater". The specific features of the twentieth-century American drama are also defined, the influence of Chekhov's theater on the development of twentieth-century American drama is analyzed, and the role played by the dramatist AP Chekhov in the formation of the creative method of T. Williams, as well as the transformation of borrowed images, themes and plot moves of the works of A.P. Chekhov in the plays “The Glass Menagerie”, “The Streetcar Named Desire”, “Orpheus Going Down to Hell” and “The Night of the Iguana”.

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