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| Title | : | Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard |
| Author | : | Anton Chekhov |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | July 9th 1998 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1887) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Fiction. Literature. Russian Literature. Theatre |
Anton Chekhov
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 4.18 | 5741 Users | 159 Reviews
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I don't think that this translation is the one that I was familiar with and can't recommend any one translation in particular.Chekhov has a had a strange fate in English in that his plays - judging by revivals of Ivanov - seem to be more valued than his short stories. It seems as though Chekhov's plays have tapped into a particular British nostalgia which doesn't help us to understand his plays in their own context. Chekhov wasn't a solidly middle-class Edwardian Englishman reflecting on a world that had vanished after WWI, he was the grandson of a serf who through the business acumen of his grandfather was able to study to become a Doctor in late Tsarist Russia, an era of abrupt and uneven violent economic and social change.
During his medical training Chekhov wrote some one act comedies but moved on to become a writer of short stories. Later in his career he began to write plays as a sideline and his relationship with the actress Olga Knipper was important here. Reading the plays in chronological order you can feel the slow development of his style and voice, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard are competent pieces but don't in my opinion come close to being as powerful as his best short fiction. Then again perhaps I don't have much of a taste for the theatrical. Though I'm oddly haunted that at the centre of Three Sisters is the maligned sister-in-law!
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| Original Title: | Иванов / Чайка / Дядя Ваня / Три сестры / Вишнёвый сад |
| ISBN: | 0192834126 (ISBN13: 9780192834126) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Based On Books Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard
Ratings: 4.18 From 5741 Users | 159 ReviewsAppraise Based On Books Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard
Full disclosure, I did not read the whole book! I chose it as part of the Reading Challenge, which was to read a play. I picked The Three Sisters. I think since it was written so long ago, it's much more mannered than current plays (or even Shakespeare), so I didn't enjoy it so much. The Russian sensibility as expressed through the characters doesn't seem to have changed a lot."Of most importance was that he was always sincere, which is a great thing for a writer; and thanks to his sincerity Chekhov created new, totally new forms of writing." - Leo Tolstoy "I THINK that in Anton Chekhov's presence every one involuntarily felt in himself a desire to be simpler, more truthful, more one's self; I often saw how people cast off the motley finery of bookish phrases, smart words, and all the other cheap tricks with which a Russian, wishing to figure as a European, adorns
This collection of Chekhov's major and most well-known plays has to be one of my most valued possessions. Each story is unique, each plot has its own theme, the characters could undoubtedly have existed and not just been imagined. Chekhov's plays seem to have a strong effect on me, I could see myself on his characters, I could sympathize with their actions and the setting would have me instantly on board.I'd love to read more of his work, especially his short stories, for which as well he is
Generally, these plays were undramatic drama about people, who by the social standards of the day, would be considered relatively comfortable but instead they are living lives of quiet desperation, beset with problems which are earthshaking only to themselves and often of their own creation, which wouldn't have happened to wiser, more stable, and foresighted people. You either love Chekhov's plays for his character studies or find his lack of momentous events and action boring. Personally, I am
Ive wanted to re-read this for some time. I really enjoy Chekhov, and have seen him performed several times. But reading all five at once, I was struck with the similarities between the plays. All five have essentially the same setting. The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters essentially trail off in the same way. There are suicides in two others and a duel-death in another. There is not much love, and little is ever resolved. Their bleakness and hopelessness is the driving emotion. So they were
I only read The Cherry Orchard from this Penguin Classics book of Anton Chekov plays. Im attending the Press Night of the play at Nottingham Playhouse on Tuesday 7th November so I thought I ought to read it beforehand.Im crap at reading classics.I just dont enjoy them.UNLESS I study them, and then I love them. If Im being completely honest, I found The Cherry Orchard painfully dull. Not a lot seems to happen. The reason I gave it three stars and not one star is because I havent yet researched
IvanovI was young, full of fire, sincere, no fool; I loved, I hated and I believed, but not like other men, I worked and I had hopes for ten, I tilted at windmills and beat my head against walls.... And tell me: could it have been otherwise? There are so few of us, and so much, so much to do! God, how much to do! And now the life against which I struggled is taking this cruel vengeance on me! I've worn myself out! ... Before you stands a man of thirty-five, disillusioned and crushed by his
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