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The Bear
Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Original version: 1888

The Bear

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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When Yelena Popova, a reclusive young widow in mourning for her late husband, receives a visit from the irascible Smirnov demanding payment of her husband's debts, things take a surprisingly romantic turn...

The Bear, a one-act comic play or 'vaudeville', was an instant hit when it premiered in Moscow in 1888. This translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine is published in the collection Chekhov: Shorts.

Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Also by Anton Chekhov:

Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
The Seagull
Three Sisters
Swansong
Three Sisters
Ivanov
Ivanov
The Cherry Orchard
Three Sisters
Three Sisters
Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando
On the Evils of Tobacco
The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov: Shorts
A Tragic Figure
Chekhov: Four Plays
Chekhov on Theatre
The Seagull
Uncle Vanya
Seagull
Three Sisters
The Proposal
The Wedding
Uncle Vanya

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

Chekhov: Shorts
The Seagull
The Misanthrope
Chekhov on Theatre
The Dance of Death
The Wedding
The Government Inspector
The Proposal
Ivanov
Six Characters in Search of an Author
An Enemy of the People
Children of the Sun
The Marriage of Figaro
Three Sisters
The Wild Duck
The Servant of Two Masters
Ibsen: Three Plays
The Cherry Orchard
Ghosts
Summerfolk
Chekhov: Four Plays
Uncle Vanya
Cinzano & Smirnova's Birthday
Swansong
A Tragic Figure
The Game Of Love And Chance
John Gabriel Borkman
On the Evils of Tobacco

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