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UNCLE VANYA IBD

BLOOMSBURY 3PL
08 / 2005
9780413774712
Inglés

Sinopsis

A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student editionAlong 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.' GuardianDefinitive translation by acclaimed playwright Michael FraynMethuen 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

PVP
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