{"product_id":"9781853993824","title":"Chekhov's Three Sisters","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eChekhov's Three Sisters\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Gordon McVay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChekhov's penultimate play has inspired a bewildering variety of interpretations since its première at the Moscow Arts Theatre on 31 January 1901. \u003ci\u003eThree Sisters \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781853993824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bristol Classical Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40597393014990,"sku":"9781853993824","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781853993824","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}