Description: For a full understanding of any text, careful consideration must be given to its life in performance. In this rewarding study of four of Chekhov's major plays - Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters - J. L. Styan demonstrates the development of Chekhov's skills as a dramatist and discusses stage action, portrayal of character, differing twentieth-century productions and the audience reactions they evoked.
Review Quotes: 'A careful study of this book would form a most valuable prelude not only to production of the plays but to understanding all that they imply before either reading them or seeing them in the theatre.' Roger Manvell, Humanist