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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:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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