List of Anton Chekhov plays with descriptions, including any musicals by Anton Chekhov, playwright. This Anton Chekhov plays list includes promotional photos when available, as well as information about co-writers and Anton Chekhov characters. This list of plays by Anton Chekhov is listed alphabetically and includes art of the play's posters when available. List is made up of many different items, including Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard. What plays did Anton Chekhov write? All these, one-acts, musicals, or full-length plays are by Anton Chekhov and can help you decide, "What are the best Anton Chekhov plays?" (14 items)
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A Marriage ProposalAnton Chekhov A Marriage Proposal is a one-act farce by Anton Chekhov, written in 1888-1889 and first performed in 1890. It is a fast-paced play of dialogue-based action and situational humour.
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A Tragedian in Spite of HimselfAnton Chekhov A Tragedian in Spite of Himself is an 1899 one-act play by Anton Chekhov.
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IvanovAnton Chekhov Ivanov is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Ivanov was first performed in 1887, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a ...more
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On the Harmful Effects of TobaccoAnton Chekhov On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco is a one-act play written by Russian author Anton Chekhov; it has one character, Ivan Ivanovich Nyukhin. First published in 1886, the play was revised by ...more
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PlatonovAnton Chekhov Platonov is the name in English given to an early, untitled play written in Russian by Anton Chekhov in 1878. It was the first large-scale drama by Chekhov written specifically for Maria ...more
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Three SistersAnton Chekhov Three Sisters is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters. It was written in 1900 and first ...more
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That Worthless Fellow PlatonovAnton Chekhov
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The BearAnton Chekhov The Bear: A Joke in One Act, or The Boor, is a one-act comedic play written by Russian author Anton Chekhov. The play was originally dedicated to Nikolai Nikolaevich Solovtsov, Chekhov's boyhood ...more
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The WeddingAnton Chekhov The Wedding is a 1889 Russian one-act play by Anton Chekhov.
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The CelebrationAnton Chekhov
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The Wood DemonAnton Chekhov The Wood Demon is a comedic play in four acts written by Russian author Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1888 and debuted in December 27, 1889 at the Abramov Theater. The play was first ...more
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The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Although ...more
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Uncle VanyaAnton Chekhov Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the ...more
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The SeagullAnton Chekhov The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises ...more
