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The Proposal
Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Original version: 1889

The Proposal

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Ivan Vasilievich Lomov wants to propose to his neighbour's daughter, Natalya Stepanovna. The only trouble is, they're both supremely argumentative...

Written in 1888 and premiered the following year, The Proposal is subtitled 'A farce in one act', and is a brilliantly funny example of what Chekhov called his 'vaudevilles'.

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:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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