A Marriage Proposal
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A Marriage Proposal (sometimes titled as 'The Proposal', Russian: Предложение) is a one-act play by Anton Chekhov written in 1888-1889.
Although best known for his longer serious plays, Mr Chekhov also wrote a number of short farces, which include the one-act A Marriage Proposal. During Chekhov's time, farces were very popular, and he wrote several works in this genre.
A Marriage Proposal is about the tendency of wealthy families to seek other wealthy families, to increase their estates by encouraging marriages that made good economic sense, and the problems that arise in marriage. In the play, Ivan Vasilyevich Lomov, long time wealthy neighbor of Stepan Stepanich Tschubukov, also wealthy, has come to seek marriage of Tschubukov's twenty-five year-old daughter, Natalia Stepanovna. Lomov and Stepanovna are bickerers at heart and fight throughout the play until the end, when they get betrothed, only, presumably, to argue happily(?) ever after.
The main arguments in the paly revolve around "The volvyi Meadows" and two dogs called "Backer and Tracker"
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That Worthless Fellow Platonov | On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco | Ivanov | The Bear | A Marriage Proposal | The Wedding | The Wood Demon | The Seagull | Uncle Vanya | Three Sisters | The Cherry Orchard |
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