Chekhov's Three Sisters

Name: Chekhov's Three Sisters
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By G. McVay

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Chekhov's penultimate play has inspired a bewildering variety of interpretations since its première at the Moscow Arts Theatre on 31 January 1901. Three Sisters has been viewed both as tragedy and as comedy, as a poignant testimony to the eternal yearning for love, happiness, beauty and meaning, and as a devastating indictment of the folly of inert gentility and vacuous day-dreaming. Its characters have been deemed worthy embodiments of the universal 'human condition', keenly experiencing hope, disappointment, frustration, loneliness and the passage of time - or passive products of pre-revolutionary Russian privilege, remnants fit only for the scrap-heap of history. This study analyses the plot, characters and themes of the play, before discussing its reception by Russian and English-language critics, and upon the Russian and British stage.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

150

Release Date:

1995-03-01

Publication Date:

2013-04-01

Publisher:

Bloomsbury 3PL

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1853993824

ISBN13:

9781853993824

Weight:

199 g

Height:

140 cm

Width:

216 cm

Thickness:

8 cm

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