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"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress"

"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician in the turn of the previous century. He's best known for his dramatic works, and especially his four major plays: The Seagull, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard. His plays seem to be nearly-plotless character studies. Although they're often about how depressed people are with the lives they lead, Chekhov referred to his plays as Comedies (aside from Three Sisters). His main objective with his work was to get people to see the pain in their lives and make a change. He worked as a doctor most of his life, and there are many doctors as characters in his work. His plays were not well-received initially, and he almost gave up writing after the first production of The Seagull was a bomb... and then it was revived four years later by the Moscow Art Theater and was a huge smash hit.

Not to be confused with Pavel Andreievich Chekov.

Anton Chekhov is the Trope Namer for:

The ubiquitous-on-this-site Chekhov's Gun

Chekhov and his works in fiction:

Literature

His plays are referenced in Discworld's The Fifth Elephant, where Mister Vimes encounters three sisters in a cherry orchard (without cherries). Mister Vimes then borrows a pair of trousers (the Gloomy and Purposeless Trousers of Uncle Vanya) from them. Though there's nothing about seagulls in there.

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-Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician in the turn of the previous century. He's best known for his dramatic works, and especially his four major plays: ''[[The Seagull]]'', ''Three Sisters'', ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' and ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]''. His plays seem to be nearly-plotless character studies. Although they're often about how depressed people are with the lives they lead, Chekhov referred to his plays as Comedies (aside from ''Three Sisters''). His main objective with his work was to get people to see the pain in their lives and make a change. He worked as a doctor most of his life, and there are many doctors as characters in his work. His plays were not well-received initially, and he almost gave up writing after the first production of ''The Seagull'' was a bomb. ...and then it was revived 4 years later by the Moscow Art Theater and was a huge smash hit.
+'''Anton Pavlovich Chekhov''' was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician in the turn of the previous century. He's best known for his dramatic works, and especially his four major plays: ''[[The Seagull]]'', ''Three Sisters'', ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' and ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]''. His plays seem to be nearly-plotless character studies. Although they're often about how depressed people are with the lives they lead, Chekhov referred to his plays as Comedies (aside from ''Three Sisters''). His main objective with his work was to get people to see the pain in their lives and make a change. He worked as a doctor most of his life, and there are many doctors as characters in his work. His plays were not well-received initially, and he almost gave up writing after the first production of ''The Seagull'' was a bomb... and then it was revived four years later by the Moscow Art Theater and was a huge smash hit.
+Not to be confused with [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Pavel Andreievich Chekov]].
-He is the [[Trope Namer]] for the ubiquitous-on-this-site [[Chekhov's Gun]].
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-His plays are also referenced in [[Discworld]]'s ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', where Mister Vimes encounters three sisters in a cherry orchard (without cherries). Mister Vimes then borrows a pair of trousers (the Gloomy and Purposeless Trousers of Uncle Vanya) from them.
+* The ubiquitous-on-this-site [[Chekhov's Gun]]
+{{examples|Chekhov and his works in fiction:}}
-Though there's nothing about seagulls in there.
+==Literature ==
+* His plays are referenced in [[Discworld]]'s ''[[The Fifth Elephant]]'', where Mister Vimes encounters three sisters in a cherry orchard (without cherries). Mister Vimes then borrows a pair of trousers (the Gloomy and Purposeless Trousers of Uncle Vanya) from them. Though there's nothing about seagulls in there.
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