The Bear (play)

The Bear
Painting of Chekhov by Valentin Serov
Written byAnton Chekhov
Date premieredOctober 28, 1888 (1888-10-28)
Place premieredMoscow
Original languageRussian
Genrevaudeville/farce comedy

The Bear: A Joke in One Act, or The Boor (Russian: Медведь: Шутка в одном действии, romanized: Medved': Shutka v odnom deystvii, 1888), is a one-act comedic play written by Russian author Anton Chekhov. The play was originally dedicated to Nikolai Nikolaevich Solovtsov, Chekhov's boyhood friend and director/actor who first played the character Smirnov.

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