Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The CherryOrchard (Penguin Classics)

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Five masterful dramatic works from one of the most world’s best-loved playwrights. This collection includes The Cherry Orchard,now on Broadwayin a Roundabout Theater Company production at the American Airlines Theater. Directed by Simon Godwin and starring Diane Lane, John Glover and Susannah Flood.   

At a time when the Russian theatre used to be dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the on a regular basis lives, loves and yearnings of atypical people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactiveness 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 ‘the scenes from country life’ of Uncle Vanya, his first fully mature play, Chekhov developed his own unique dramatic world, neither tragedy nor comedy. In Three Sisters the Prozorov sisters forever dream of going to Moscow to escape the monotony of provincial life, at the same time as his comedy The Cherry Orchard portrays characters futilely clinging to the past as their land is sold from underneath them.

In this edition Peter Carson’s moving translations convey Chekhov’s subtle blend of comedy, tragedy and psychological insight, at the same time as Richard Gilman’s introduction examines how Chekhov broke with theatrical conventions and discusses each play in detail. 

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works all the way through history and across genres and disciplines. Readers believe the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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