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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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Three Sisters
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Ivanov
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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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