{"product_id":"chekhov-shorts","title":"Chekhov: Shorts","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection features Chekhov’s best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them referred to by Chekhov as ‘vaudevilles’ and all written in the late 1880s before any of his great full-length plays. ‘I don’t much care for theatre,’ he wrote at the time, ‘but I do enjoy vaudevilles.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bear\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e The Proposal\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e The Wedding \u003c\/em\u003eare all farces on the preposterous business of courtship and marriage. \u003cem\u003eA Tragic Figure\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSwansong \u003c\/em\u003eare comic duologues: one about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha, the other about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories. \u003cem\u003eOn the Evils of Tobacco \u003c\/em\u003eis a bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese accurate and actable translations by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine reveal a dramatist revelling in the broad comedy of human behaviour, a comedy which was refined in his later masterpieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\nHighly entertaining, these comic shorts offer a fascinating insight into Chekhov’s development as a dramatist, and will provide actors at any level – student, amateur or professional – with an ideal showcase.\nThis edition also includes an introduction, a chronology of key dates, and a pronunciation guide.","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32050237112403,"sku":"9781848422919","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781848422919.jpg?v=1777839321","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/chekhov-shorts","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}