Abstract
Uncle Vanya is one of Anton Chekhov's four major plays. It was first performed in 1900, the year after its publication, under direction by the celebrated Konstantin Stanislavski. The text reworks an earlier play by Chekhov, The Wood Demon. Critics have attempted to follow Chekhov's method and artistic development by tracking the changes he made to the earlier text. The cast of Uncle Vanya is significantly pared back, and the ending left less happily resolved.