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Chekhov: Shorts

Chekhov: Shorts

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  • Release Date: 16/01/2014
  • Barcode: 9781848422919
  • Genre: Poetry & Drama
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Chekhov: Shorts

Chekhov: Shorts

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A collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.


This collection features Chekhov’s best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them referred to by Chekhov as ‘vaudevilles’ and all written in the late 1880s before any of his great full-length plays. ‘I don’t much care for theatre,’ he wrote at the time, ‘but I do enjoy vaudevilles.’

The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding are all farces on the preposterous business of courtship and marriage. A Tragic Figure and Swansong are comic duologues: one about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha, the other about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories. On the Evils of Tobacco is a bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.

These accurate and actable translations by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine reveal a dramatist revelling in the broad comedy of human behaviour, a comedy which was refined in his later masterpieces.

Highly entertaining, these comic shorts offer a fascinating insight into Chekhov’s development as a dramatist, and will provide actors at any level – student, amateur or professional – with an ideal showcase.This edition also includes an introduction, a chronology of key dates, and a pronunciation guide.

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  • Contributor: Stephen Mulrine (Translated by)
  • Translator: Stephen Mulrine
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