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Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are also held in high esteem by writers and critics alike. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is considered one of three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.

In autumn 1887, a theatre manager named Korsh commissioned Chekhov to write a play, the result being Ivanov. Though Chekhov claimed he found the experience "sickening" the play was a hit and was praised, much to Chekhov's bemusement, as a work of originality. Although Chekhov did not fully realise it at the time, his plays, such as The Seagull (written in 1895), Uncle Vanya (1897), The Three Sisters (1900), and The Cherry Orchard (1903) served as a revolutionary backbone to what is common sense to the medium of acting to this day: an effort to recreate and express the realism of how people truly act and speak with each other.

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