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Uncle Vanya - cover

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Translator Constance Garnett

Publisher: Adelphi Press

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Summary

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 happy ending into a more problematic.
Available since: 05/27/2018.

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