Round 4: Tossup 12

In a play by this author, a bookcase is praised as “dear and honored” for serving a family for one hundred years. In another work by this author, a playwright abruptly ends his play about a spirit fighting Satan when his mother mocks the production. The aspiring actress Nina leaves that suicidal playwright to become the mistress of this author’s semi-autobiographical character Boris Trigorin. The servant Firs lies (-5[1])down to die at the end of a play by this author, which is accompanied by the sound of axes chopping the title (10[1])estate (10[1])down. For 10 points, name this Russian playwright of The Seagull and The Cherry (10[1])Orchard, who also names a literary principle about a gun firing. ■END■ (10[1])

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