The Three Sisters (An Authoritative Text Edition of a Great Play)

The Three Sisters is one of the indispensable plays of the modern theater; an unforgettable study of the paradoxes and contradictions of the human character and the human condition, it is one of the most-produced plays in theater history. This edition contains the text of a new translation by Tyrone Guthrie and Leonid Kipnis; substantial exerpts from Chekhov’s notebooks and correspondenc; and cmoentary by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Maxim Gorky, David Magarshack, and others.