The Bear
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

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.

Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts

Also by Anton Chekhov:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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