Three Sisters
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Published on 12. June 2014
124 pages
978-1-78001-425-8 (ISBN)
Description
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
This Drama Classics edition of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,26 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78001-425-8 (9781780014258)
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Persons
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), a physician by training, is now considered the most notable 20th-century Russian dramatist. His major plays, all staged by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre, helped establish psychological realism in European theatre.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- For Further Reading
- Chekhov: Key Dates
- Dramatis Personae
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- Act Four
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information
