Five Comic One-Act Plays
eBook - ePub

Five Comic One-Act Plays

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Five Comic One-Act Plays

About this book

One of the foremost dramatists of the 19th century, Russian author Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) created a body of work noted for its realistic dialogue and keen insights into human relationships. This collection of five one-act plays — in the celebrated Constance Garnett translations — shows Chekhov at his witty best.
The Anniversary takes a lively look behind the frenetic scenes at a bank: a man overburdened with errands from friends and family gives a nearly maddened but ludicrous account of his chores and obligations in An Unwilling Martyr; and The Wedding depicts scenes from a wedding reception in which the mother of the bride assumes affected airs and deals with quarrelsome guests. In The Bear, a virtuous, spirited widow is pressed to repay a debt and ends up receiving an offer of marriage. The Proposal depicts the trauma of a would-be suitor who winds up in a wrangle over property.
Theater lovers, students of drama and literature, and other readers, as well as amateur and professional groups performing these popular works, will welcome this convenient, inexpensive collection of comic gems by one of the masters of modern drama.

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Information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780486408873
eBook ISBN
9780486112060
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Drama
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS - GENERAL EDITOR: PAUL NEGRI EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: KATHY CASEY
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Note
  5. Table of Contents
  6. AN UNWILLING MARTYR - (A HOLIDAY EPISODE)
  7. THE ANNIVERSARY
  8. THE PROPOSAL - A JEST IN ONE ACT
  9. THE BEAR - A JEST IN ONE ACT
  10. THE WEDDING - A FARCE IN ONE ACT
  11. DOVER · THRIFT · EDITIONS