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Chekhov's Three Sisters

Chekhov's Three Sisters

McVay, Gordon
McVay, G.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Paperback

Series: Critical Studies in Russian Literature

RussianPlaysPlaywriting

ISBN10: 1853993824
ISBN13: 9781853993824
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

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.

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