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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:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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