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A Tragic Figure
Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Original version: 1889

A Tragic Figure

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Anton Chekhov's one-act play A Tragic Figure (From Country Life) is a comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha.

This English translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine is published in the collection Chekhov: Shorts.

'That's what this country life does to you... They think it's funny, but I mean, I'm alive, I've got a life, and I want to live too! This isn't some sort of farce, it's a tragedy!'

Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Also by Anton Chekhov:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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