Uncle Vanya

Methuen Student Editio

By: Michael Frayn (Translator), Anton Chekhov

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Paperback | 1 August 2006 | Edition Number 1

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176 Pages

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1.1 x 13 x 20.2

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'A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition. 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) ''It is the element of might-have-been in Chekhov''s characters that makes their sense of waste so tragic ... I know of no more moving climax in world drama.'' Guardian
Definitive translation by acclaimed playwright Michael Frayn. Methuen Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays. Contains the complete text of the play, the volume contains a chronology of the playwright''s life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of various interpretations; and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.'

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