{"product_id":"9781848422919-chekhov-shorts","title":"Chekhov: Shorts","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bear\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e The Proposal\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e The Wedding \u003c\/em\u003eare all farces on the preposterous business of courtship and marriage. \u003cem\u003eA Tragic Figure\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSwansong \u003c\/em\u003eare 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. \u003cem\u003eOn the Evils of Tobacco \u003c\/em\u003eis a bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003eHighly 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41612972621921,"sku":"9781848422919","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26947932.jpg?v=1721379269","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781848422919-chekhov-shorts","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}