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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:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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