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Swan Song

by Anton Chekhov · 1887

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One-act-play with only two characters: Vasili Svietlovidoff, a 68 year old comic actor and Nikita Ivanich, an even older man, the theater's prompter.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
1880sRussia
Audience
adult
Length
short · 26 pages
Form
plays

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