The Three Sisters from Haworth: The Bront?s on the Stage

This book analyzes the play We Are Three Sisters, written in 2011 by the poet and British playwright Philip Blake Morrison, in order to discuss the links between the instances of the fictional, the real, imagery and biography. Morrison uses as a backdrop for the elaboration of We Are Three Sisters the text Three Sisters (1900), by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Morrison fills his play with data on the life of the Brontë sisters, as depicted by the historian and biographer Juliet Barker in The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors (2010). The dialogue between the turn of Chekhov’s Russia of the nineteenth/twentieth century and the (countryside) scenario (industrial) north of England in the Victorian period, when equated by Morrison in the context of today, invites us to make some considerations that have much to tell us about the parameters of contemporary dramaturgy.

Valter Henrique de Castro Fritsch is lecturer in the English Department of Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) in Brazil. He holds a PhD and a Master Degree in English Contemporary Drama at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is also the artistic director of Teatro do Lírio, a theatre company from Porto Alegre - Brazil.