Plays

Anton Chekhov, Peter Carson, Richard Gilman

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Penguin Classics
01 June 2002

Plays & playscripts; Penguin Black Classics

A collection of Chekhov's dramatic masterpieces

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.

By: Anton Chekhov
Introduction by: Richard Gilman
Translated by: Peter Carson
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 287g
ISBN: 9780140447330
ISBN 10: 0140447334
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 June 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PlaysIntroduction Further Reading Chronology Translator's Note GlossaryIvanov The Seagull Uncle Vanya Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard Notes

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian physician and writer of short stories and plays. Peter Carson learnt Russian during his National Service and works in London publishing. Richard Gilman is Professor Emeritus of Playwriting and Dramaric Literature at Yale University's School of Drama. He has been drama critic for Newsweek and is the author of 'Chekhov's Plays' (Yale, 1996) and 'The Making of Modern Drama' (Yale, 2000).