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A Tragic Figure
Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Original version: 1889

A Tragic Figure

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Anton Chekhov's one-act play A Tragic Figure (From Country Life) is a comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha.

This English translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine is published in the collection Chekhov: Shorts.

'That's what this country life does to you... They think it's funny, but I mean, I'm alive, I've got a life, and I want to live too! This isn't some sort of farce, it's a tragedy!'

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

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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