Uncle Vanya
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781350013483 |
ISBN-13 | : 135001348X |
Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth century Russia, Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the enervation of Russian middle-class provincial life. The major dynamics between the characters themselves are centred on two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere and a flirtation that brings disaster. Mixing the tragic and the absurd and dealing with a form that allows for ambiguity and contradiction, Uncle Vanya has been deemed "the first modernist play". (David Lan)