Uncle Vanya : a version of the play by Anton Chekhov
(2018)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media, 2018
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781787245655 (electronic bk.) MWT12146121, 1787245659 (electronic bk.) 12146121
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Uncle Vanya is different from Chekhov's other major plays as it is essentially an extensive reworking of his own other play published a decade earlier, The Wood Demon. By elucidating, the specific changes Chekhov made during the revision process-these include reducing the cast-list from almost two dozen down to nine, changing the climactic suicide of The Wood Demon into the famous failed homicide of Uncle Vanya, and altering the original successful conclusion into a more problematic

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