Stanislavski said, “After the reading of the play, some of us, talking of our impressions of the play, called it a drama, and others even a tragedy, without noticing that these definitions amazed Chekhov.” Years later, Stanislavski recalled that afterwards he went to Chekhov’s hotel and quote, “I do not remember ever seeing him so angry again. He attended an early reading, and he was furious.
Jacke Wilson: Three Sisters was the first play that Chekhov wrote specifically for the Moscow Art Theatre, and he was involved in the preproduction. In the third installment of Chekhov’s Four Major Plays, Jacke takes a look at Three Sisters, which tells the story of three sisters living in a provincial capital and longing for Moscow. How did literature develop? What forms has it taken? And what can we learn from engaging with these works today? Hosted by Jacke Wilson, an amateur scholar with a lifelong passion for literature, The History of Literature takes a fresh look at some of the most compelling examples of creative genius the world has ever known. We know it today as literature, a term broad enough to encompass everything from ancient epic poetry to contemporary novels. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began. For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another.
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