Michael Well! He won’t do. Liubov doesn’...

The Coast of Utopia: Voyage

Tatiana Bakunin Alexandra Bakunin Miss Chamberlain Semyon Michael Bakunin

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Michael Well! He won’t do. Liubov doesn’t love him, that’s obvious. Varenka We know that. Tatiana She won’t go against papa, and the baron is a good match, isn’t he?

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Michael This marriage cannot take place. We must save Liubov. To give oneself without love is a sin against our inner life which is our only real life. The life of our bodily existence is mere illusion. I’ll explain it all to father. God, I’m starving!


For full extended scene, please see the edition cited here: Stoppard, Tom. The Coast of Utopia: Voyage. Act 1, “Summer 1833.” 2002.

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