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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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