Plays by Anton Chekhov: By Anton Chekhov - Illustrated

ISBN-10: 1521933227
ISBN-13: 9781521933220
Series: Plays by Anton Chekhov
Pages: 141
Language: English
Published: 2017-07-25
Author: Anton Anton Chekhov

Description

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Plays by Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov This edition contains some of the most famous plays by the Russian short story writer and playwright, Anton Chekhov. His major plays are frequently revived in modern productions. This edition includes On the High Road, The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear, A Tragedian in Spite of Himself, The Anniversary, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. 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.