Антон Чехов. Plays
At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the 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 Uncle Vanya, his first fully mature play, Chekhov developed a unique dramatic world, neither tragedy nor comedy. In Three Sisters, the Prozorov sisters 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. Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см.