![]() ![]() Contemporary audiences and readers now familiar with the dramatic lessons of futility and frustrated expectations by such playwrights as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter may overlook just how radical and trail-blazing Three Sisters was. It is in many ways the archetypal modern drama that pioneered a new dramatic vision and method for the stage. Chekhov’s contemporary Maxim Gorky memorably praised its initial production in 1901 as “music, not acting,” and considered Three Sisters the most profound and effective of Chekhov’s plays. Regarded by many as the playwright’s masterwork, Three Sisters-the third of Anton Chekhov’s four major full-length dramas-is his longest and most complex play. Leonid Andreev, “Three Sisters,” in The Complete Collected Works And in Three Sisters, this pressure is brought to the limit, beyond which it will explode-and don’t you actually hear how life is seething, doesn’t its angrily protesting voice reach your ears? Like steam, life can be compressed into a narrow little container, but, also like steam, it will endure pressure only to a certain point. ![]() ![]() Analysis of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters ![]()
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