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The Proposal

"The Proposal"

also: Предложение, Predlozhenie

Chekhov's one-act farce "The Proposal" (Предложение, 1888-89), in which a marriage proposal is repeatedly derailed by quarrels over land and dogs; mentioned here as a minor catalogue note -- it will be printed under the pseudonym "A. P." rather than "Antosha Chekhonte" or "A. Chekhov."

Reading notes

To I. M. Kondratyev, 5 March 1889. Moscow. §6 "The Proposal" will be printed under the pseudonym "A. P."
Another of Chekhov's one-act farces, "Предложение" ("The Proposal,"). The note that it will be printed under the pseudonym "A. P." (i.e., his initials) -- as distinct from full attribution to "Antosha Chekhonte" or "A. Chekhov" -- is a minor bibliographic detail for Kondratyev's catalogue, not elaborated further here.
To I. L. Leontyev, 11 March 1889. Moscow. §5 "The Proposal"
Chekhov's one-act farce (Предложение), already established elsewhere in this corpus; here discussed as a matter of staging rights rather than composition, with Chekhov calling it his "notoriously stupid little play" in evident self-deprecating irony.
To I. L. Leontyev, 12 April 1889. Moscow. §3 "The Proposal"
"Предложение," Chekhov's one-act vaudeville, here the subject of Shcheglov's over-eager press promotion, which Chekhov gently rebukes.
To I. L. Leontyev, 18 September 1889. Moscow. §7 "The Proposal"
Chekhov's one-act farce, which he says he pulled from Goreva's repertoire.
To A. S. Lazarev, 23 November 1889. Moscow. §7 The Proposal
Chekhov's own one-act farce \emph{Предложение} (\emph{The Proposal}), cited alongside \emph{The Bear} as an example of the same season-ahead writing timeline.
To N. M. Kozhin, 17 January 1890. Petersburg. §4 my play "A Marriage Proposal"
\emph{The Proposal} ("Предложение", 1888--89), Chekhov's one-act farce, rendered here as "A Marriage Proposal" per this letter's translation; one of his most frequently staged short comedies, whose Moscow performance rights for the 1889--90 season Chekhov had already granted exclusively to Goreva (see the following note and, where he reports pulling the play from her repertoire the previous autumn before apparently reinstating the arrangement).
To I. M. Kondratyev, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. §4 my "A Proposal" at their theater
\emph{The Proposal} ("Предложение", 1888--89), Chekhov's one-act farce, rendered "A Marriage Proposal" in the near-contemporary refusal to Kozhin and simply "A Proposal" here; the same play, the same exclusive-rights dispute, eleven days apart.
To I. M. Kondratyev, 14 February 1891. Moscow. §4 "The Proposal"
"Предложение" ("The Proposal,"), Chekhov's one-act farce in which a marriage proposal is repeatedly derailed by quarrels over land and dogs, already well established elsewhere in this corpus (e.g.). Here it is the subject of a fresh two-year contract with the Directorate of the Imperial Moscow Theatres, reported to Kondratyev as a matter of record.
To A. M. Kondratyev, 22 February 1891. Moscow. §3 I want terribly to see my own "The Proposal,"
"Предложение" ("The Proposal,"), Chekhov's one-act farce, receiving a Sunday-morning performance Chekhov cannot get tickets to see himself -- an ironic domestic footnote to the same play's formal two-year Directorate contract reported a week earlier in.