"A play should be written in which peole arrive, go away, have dinner, talk about the weather, and play cards."

 
"The writer must be as objective as a chemist."

 
Stanislavsky says about Chekhov's plays: "After having read them, you say to yourself: This is good, but . . . it's nothing special, nothing to stun you with admiration. Everything is as it should be. Familiar . . . truthful . . . nothing new . . . ."

 
"Let everything on the stage be just as complicated, and at the same time just as simple as it is in life."

 
1 - Is Ivanov a realistic play? Why?
2 - Speak about realism of the plot in Ivanov.
3- Realism of language in the play.
4- Realism of characters.
5- What does "realism" mean?
6- What is the difference between realism and Naturalism?