ABSTRACT
. . .If Germany (not Prussia) claims affinity to the speculative Hamlet, Russia may claim a double affinity to Hamlet, the speculative and the futile. In the ‘Three Sisters’ little is projected, and, as is common in Russian drama, nothing is done . . . Chekhov so far from attaching importance to narrative interest, is content to rely on the simple truth that character will out even though the end of the day finds folk just where they were at the beginning.
