Twelve plays
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992Description: xvi, 372 pISBN: 0192828134; 9780192828132 Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, -- 1860-1904 -- Translations into English | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, -- 1860-1904 | Russian dramaDDC classification: 891.72Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Translated from the Russian.
On the high road --
Swan song --
The bear --
The proposal --
Tatyana Repin --
A tragic role --
The wedding --
The anniversary --
Smoking is bad for you --
The night before the trial --
The wood-demon --
Platonov.
"Vaudeville subjects gush out of me like oil from the wells of Baku." Thus Chekhov once expressed his relish for writing the short one-act farces which (together with two longer plays) form this collection, written during the period when Chekhov was producing more serious prose fiction.
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