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A Man's Grief (Мужское горе)
A Man's Grief
also: Мужское горе, Muzhskoye Gore
A play by Aleksei Suvorin; Chekhov jokes here of reworking it in May into a "funny tragedy" by keeping the male role intact and giving the character an entirely new wife, both to be played in dead earnest. Not otherwise elaborated in the corpus as translated so far.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 14 February 1889. Moscow. §9 your "A Man's Grief"
A play by Suvorin; Chekhov's proposal to rework it into a "funny tragedy" -- keeping the male role but supplying an entirely new wife -- is a joking literary scheme not otherwise elaborated in the corpus as translated so far.