The Proposal
Farce in one act · 1889
- EN Recorded in English
- ~14 min
- 3 characters, 146 lines
- ~47 MB
Lomov arrives in evening dress to propose to Natalya, his neighbour’s daughter. Before he can get the words out, the two are quarrelling over who owns the Oxen Meadows, then over whose dog is the better hunter. Her father, Chubukov, only makes it worse.
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Characters
- LomovIvan Vassilevitch Lomov, a neighbouring landowner, hearty but very suspicious, and a hypochondriac
- NatalyaNatalya Stepanovna, Chubukov's daughter, twenty-five
- ChubukovStepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, a landowner