{"product_id":"chekhovs-three-sisters","title":"Chekhov's Three Sisters","description":"Chekhov's penultimate play has inspired a bewildering variety of interpretations since its première at the Moscow Arts Theatre on 31 January 1901. \u003ci\u003eThree Sisters \u003c\/i\u003ehas been viewed both as tragedy and as comedy, as a poignant testimony to the eternal yearning for love, happiness, beauty and meaning, and as a devastating indictment of the folly of inert gentility and vacuous day-dreaming. Its characters have been deemed worthy embodiments of the universal 'human condition', keenly experiencing hope, disappointment, frustration, loneliness and the passage of time - or passive products of pre-revolutionary Russian privilege, remnants fit only for the scrap-heap of history. This study analyses the plot, characters and themes of the play, before discussing its reception by Russian and English-language critics, and upon the Russian and British stage.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833530200269,"sku":"9781853993824","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_1f12a260-bc1a-4d40-bcf1-de9aed9f17b9.jpg?v=1790887531","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/chekhovs-three-sisters","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}