Swansong
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts

Swansong

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts

A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.

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

Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts

Also by Anton Chekhov:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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