The Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is among the major short-story writers and dramatists of modern times.During the last half of the 19th century the old order in Russia was crumbl...
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Anton Chekhov is today one of the most widely known authors of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Appreciated not only in Russia and the West but also in Asia, he was a master of the short story, ...
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MacCarthy compares the characters and plot of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House to The Three Sisters and reviews an early production of The Three Sisters.
“What does Bernard Shaw kn...
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In the following essay, Tufts praises the satirical elements of The Three Sisters.
Chekhov signals his audience from the very beginning. As the curtain rises on a set divided into a “drawing ro...
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In the following essay, Karpinski notes the similarities between The Three Sisters and Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart, which include a trio of females, the domestic setting, and humorous el...
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In the following essay, Dupee examines the stylistic and thematic limitations of Chekhov's work and the special demands that The Three Sisters places upon the performers.
“The profundity...
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In the following essay, Whitaker compares the musical elements of The Three Sisters with George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House and Paul Claudel's Break of Noon.
You seem wide awake ton...
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In the following essay, Moss examines the subtle elements of Chekhov's character and thematic development.
In Three Sisters, the inability to act becomes the action of the play. How to make sta...
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In the following essay, Hubbs discusses the various dimensions of themes and characterization in The Three Sisters.
In recent years we have seen a new appreciation of Chekhov's plays on the par...
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In the following essay, Kramer examines the role of love in The Three Sisters and the characters' reactions to their romantic entanglements.
For all the talk about Three Sisters, it is still ex...
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In the following essay, Karlinsky discusses the images of hunting and the forest throughout Chekhov's work and points to its significance in The Three Sisters.
In describing the domestic arrang...
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In the following essay, Peace discusses the creative genesis of The Three Sisters.
Chekhov began work on The Three Sisters in August 1900. It was the first play he wrote specifically for the Moscow A...
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In the following essay, Rzepka points out the similarities between The Three Sisters and several of the plays of William Shakespeare as well as Chekhov's preoccupation with the classical and Sh...
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In the following essay, Trilling ruminates on Chekhov's insistence that Three Sisters is a comedy, speculating that when Chekhov maintained "that Three Sisters was a comedy, even a farce...
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In the excerpt below, Jarrell discusses the themes of Three Sisters.
In a sense The Three Sisters needs criticism less than almost any play I can think of. It is so marvelously organized, made, realiz...
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In this essay, Hahn examines Chekhov's carefully constructed balance of opposing tensions in Three Sisters.
D. S. Mirsky defined something of the essential character of Chekhov's art whe...
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In the following essay, Moss focuses on the motivations, values, and interrelations of the characters in Three Sisters, maintaining that "the webs of characters obscure—and enrich—...
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In the essay below, Kramer traces "the variety of responses to love" among the main characters of Three Sisters.
For all the talk about Three Sisters, it is still extraordinarily difficu...
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In this essay, Majdalany mounts a defense of Natasha. Ivanovna in Three Sisters, in an effort to arrive at a more balanced interpretation of the character than the merely selfish and predatory figure ...
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In the following essay, Nilsson examines images of festivity and celebration counterpoised by images of abstinence and deprivation in Three Sisters.
One of the rooms devoted to modern pre-revolutionar...
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In the essay below, McVay draws on comments by Chekhov in his correspondence regarding art in general and Three Sisters specifically in order to illuminate the play.
Chekhov's richest and great...
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Amman (dpa) - Nahawand is one of thousands of Iraqi women who fled
to Jordan with their surviving family members, seeking safety after
losing beloved ones in mysterious circ...
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Trudy McCaffery, who co-owned Santa Anita Derby and Pacific Classic winners Came Home and Free House and bred thoroughbreds, has died at 62.McCaffery died Monday at her home in this San Diego subur...
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Bertram A. Powers, the former head of New York's newspaper printers' union who led a 16-week strike in the 1960s that paralyzed the city's dailies, has died. He was 84.Powers died of pneumonia Satu...
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Werner von Trapp, a member of the musical family made famous by the 1965 movie "The Sound of Music," has died, his family said. He was 91.Von Trapp died Thursday at his home in Waitsfield. The caus...
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A 7-year-old girl was fatally stabbed on Tuesday evening in a
residential area in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, and the male suspect
who fled the scene remains at large...
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In the second-floor balcony of a dimly lit Manhattan bistro, the three sisters of Black Buddafly are eating light, despite tempting selections like rice and peas and jerk chicken. Perhaps these Ger...
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Immigration agents arrested 69 people Thursday in raids on a temporary employment agency's offices and places where it hired out illegal immigrant workers, including the port of Baltimore, authorit...
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The fear of lice spreading through this crowded Palestinian refugee camp, where taking a shower has become a luxury, sent 250 boys and men scurrying to get their hair cut.Beddawi already was crampe...
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov
Critical Essay by Desmond MacCarthy
YEARENDER: Iraqi family in Jordan has no hope of returning home - yet
