{"product_id":"chekhovs-three-sisters-9781853993824","title":"Chekhov's Three Sisters","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gordon McVay\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082828767383,"sku":"9781853993824","price":3056.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781853993824.webp?v=1767263434","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/chekhovs-three-sisters-9781853993824","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}