Tsehhov daam koeraga Chekov Lady and the Lapdog
dramatic technique and it was his enthusiasm that ensured the first highly
successful production of the play.
Th e plot of Chekhov's sixteen-page masterpiece is not complicated. A man
meets a
woman while both are vacationing -- without their spouses -- in the southern
resort villa of Yalta. Th ey have an aff air and return to their respective spouses
-- he to his wife in Moscow, she to her husband in Saratov. While at fi rst the
man, Dmitrij Gurov, regards the aff air as just another pleasant fl ing, soon to be
forgotten, he later begins to remember and cherish the time he has spent with
Anna in Yalta. He gradually becomes consumed with a desire to see her and
travels to Saratov to fi nd her. When he manages to meet with her, they embrace
passionately for a brief stolen moment away from her husband and she promises
to travel to Moscow to continue the aff air that they had begun in Yalta. At
annaabi.ee 
