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

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