Uncle Vanya (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Anton Chekhov (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1974

  $3.27

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $5.06

  A translation of the play by the Russian writer who also wrote The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and The Three Sisters. The translator wrote her version in collaboration with the cast of the 1992 National Theatre production of Uncle Vanya, which includes Ian McKellen and Antony Sher.

• New

  Paperback
  1987

  $16.07

  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)