Chekhov, A.P.
Plays: Ivanov , The Seagull , Uncle Vanya , Three Sisters , The Cherry Orchard (Penguin Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780140447330
- author:
- Chekhov, A.P.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2002
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 19.86 x 12.9 x 1.98 centimetres
- Genre:
- Drama texts: 19th century
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights are collected in this Penguin Classics edition. Anton Chekhov's plays offer a new sort of drama that lays bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactivity and lost idealism, while The Seagull contrasts a young man's selfish romanticism with the stoicism of a woman cruelly abandoned by her lover. In Uncle Vanya, Chekhov developed his own unique dramatic world, neither tragedy nor comedy. The Cherry Orchard portrays characters futilely clinging to the past as their land is sold from underneath them. This edition features Peter Carson's moving translations and Richard Gilman's introduction, which examines how Chekhov broke with theatrical conventions and discusses each play in detail.
Related Products
Related Products
Five Plays: Ivanov , The Seagull , Uncle Vanya , Three Sisters , and The Cherry Orchard (Oxford World's Classics)
Chekhov, Anton
The Cherry Orchard (Modern Plays)
Chekhov, Anton
Sister Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
Lorde, Audre
The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, Anton
Sister Carrie (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Dreiser, Theodore