Uncle Vanya New Edition - New ed

One of Chekhov's four last great plays, Uncle Vanya (1897) depicts wasted lives and frustration in the depths of rural Russia. Arguably the first modernist drama, full of ambiguities and contradictions, it delicately balances the tragic and the absurd.
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
Set on a remote farm in the Ukraine, Uncle Vanya is the story of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere and a flirtation that brings disaster. This is a comprehensively annotated edition for students of Chekhov’s first masterpiece, in the definitive translation by award-winning playwright Michael Frayn. Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) is one of the founding fathers of modern drama. His most important plays are Three Sisters, Ivanov, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard.
Annotated student edition of Chekhov's masterpiece play, in a translation by Michael Frayn