Anton Chekhov’s Vaudevilles and Other Sketches

A collection of the comic vaudeville sketches that Chekhov wrote for satirical magazines and revues: A famous writer driven to desperate acts by an over zealous fan, tricks with mustard played on faithful retainers, a widow’s mourning quickly overturned, the pomposity of an Inspector General deflated by a cart driver, a proposal breaking into a furious argument at every turn, and a husband never quite managing to give the speech he’s been told to…