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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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