In the following essay, Peace discusses the creative genesis of The Three Sisters.

In this essay, Hahn examines Chekhov's carefully constructed balance of opposing tensions in Three Sisters.

In the following essay, Tufts praises the satirical elements of The Three Sisters.

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.

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—the scaffold of action" in the drama.

In the following essay, Moss examines the subtle elements of Chekhov's character and thematic development.

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 elements.

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 the essay below, Kramer traces "the variety of responses to love" among the main characters of Three Sisters.

In the following essay, Kramer examines the role of love in The Three Sisters and the characters' reactions to their romantic entanglements.

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.

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 Shakespearean archetype of three sisters.

In the following essay, Hubbs discusses the various dimensions of themes and characterization in The Three Sisters.

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, he was not talking to critics or theorists of literature but to actors, and he was trying to suggest what should be brought to the text by those who put it on the stage, a complexity of meaning which the text might not at first reveal."

In the following essay, Nilsson examines images of festivity and celebration counterpoised by images of abstinence and deprivation in Three Sisters.

In the excerpt below, Jarrell discusses the themes of Three Sisters.

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 she is commonly considered.

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.

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.