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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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