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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:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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