Plays
by Anton Chekhov, Peter Carson (Translator, Notes by), Richard Gilman (Introduction by)
ISBN-10: 0140447334
ISBN-13: 9780140447330
$10.00
Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Sep 3, 2002
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8.50x5.43x0.98 Inches
Weight
0.64 Pounds
About the Book
At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactivity and lost idealism, and The Seagull contrasts a young man's selfish romanticism with the stoicism of a woman cruelly abandoned by her lover. With 'the scenes from country life' of Uncle Vanya, his first fully mature play, Chekhov developed his own unique dramatic world, neither tragedy nor comedy. In Three Sisters the Prozorov sisters endlessly dream of going to Moscow to escape the monotony of provincial life, while his comedy The Cherry Orchard portrays characters futilely clinging to the past as their land is sold from underneath them.