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In a play by this author, a bookcase is praised as “dear and honored” for serving a family for one hundred years. (10[1])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 (-5[1])character Boris Trigorin. The servant Firs lies down to die at the end of a play by this author, which is accompanied by the sound of axes chopping (10[1])the (10[1])title estate (10[1])down. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Russian playwright (10[1])of The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, (10[2])who also (10[1])names a literary principle about a gun firing. ■END■

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