The complete online text of Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Chekhov.

Anton Chekhov is today one of the most widely known authors of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Appreciated not only in Russia and the West but also in Asia, he was a master of the short story, and his innovations in the poetics of short prose fict...

The Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is among the major short-story writers and dramatists of modern times. During the last half of the 19th century the old order in Russia was crumbling. Political institutions were out of line with act...

In the dramatic literature of the last hundred years, the major four plays of Chekhov, The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1899), The Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904), often have been considered difficult to interpret. They have presented a challenge for directors,...

When Chekhov lay dying in a spa town in Germany's Black Forest, his doctor ordered oxygen, only to have the playwright insist it was too late and request a bottle of champagne instead. It was a curiously appropriate end to the life of a...