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On May 5th, the three Prozorov sisters sit in their drawing-room in a Russian provincial capital. The youngest, 20-year-old Irina, is celebrating her name-day, and the eldest, 28-year-old Olga, recalls their father’s death one year ago today.In contrast to last year’s snowy, sorrowful day, today’s weather is sunny, and the sisters, especially Irina, feel hopeful.
Apr 9, 2024 · Three Sisters, Russian drama in four acts by Anton Chekhov, first performed in Moscow in 1901 and published as Tri sestry in the same year. The Prozorov sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) yearn for the excitement of Moscow; their dreary provincial life is enlivened only by the arrival of the Imperial Army. The sisters’ dreams of a new life are ...
The Three Sisters are an unusual rock formation in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, on the north escarpment of the Jamison Valley.They are located close to the town of Katoomba and are one of the Blue Mountains' best known sites, towering above the Jamison Valley. Their names are Meehni (922 m), Wimlah (918 m), and Gunnedoo (906 m). The formation receives more than 600,000 ...
The Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov, 1901, complete HTML play, English translation by Constance Garnett, 1916, edited and annotated by James Rusk and A. S. Man, 1998 Next> | <Prev | End Based on the copy-text Plays by Anton Tchekov , translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, New York, Macmillan, 1916, also available in early Modern Library ...
The Three Sisters is one of Chekov’s four dramatic masterpieces, alongside The Seagull (1894), Uncle Vanya (1899), and The Cherry Orchard (1904). Chekov is considered to be one of the foundational figures of the modern theater, alongside Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, whose late 19th century works, including A Doll’s House and An Enemy ...
Yet The Three Sisters offers a psychic and spiritual eventfulness so dense, yet also so delicately organized, as to make the work one of the miracles of drama and certainly Chekhov’s masterpiece ...
The Three Sisters was the first play that Chekhov wrote specifically for the Moscow Art Theatre, having experienced commercial success in his previous collaborations with the company, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya. Like many of Chekhov’s works, it is about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world.
