Title: Uncle Vanya : scene from country life /
Authors: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904; Hampton, Christopher, 1946-; Froud, Nina.
Publisher: Faber and Faber,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Country life Russia Drama.; Families Russia Drama.
Abstract: "'It's often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the one you've seen most recently. 'Uncle Vanya' doesn't have a suicide, like "The Seagull", or an adulterous couple and a duel more or less indistinguishable from murder, like 'Three Sisters'; nor does it seem to announce the end of an era, like 'The Cherry Orchard': all it has is a series of ludicrously bungled attempts at murder and suicide and adultery. Perhaps these failures are what makes it feel the saddest and most truthful of these great tragi-comedies, in which, possibly unique to all drama, not a single word seems redundant or out of place."--From the author's introduction.