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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030204
Author:William Triplett

Anton Chekhov may have been the first dramatist of the "silent majority." Okay, he copped some of his principal themes -- unrequited love and other domestic ills quietly destroying the seemingly banal lives of landed gentry -- from predecessor Ivan Turgenev. But Chekhov expanded on them enormously in his own distinct dramatic style -- contrasting the naturalistic, slice-of-life surface of almost generic, static plots with his characters' bitterly specific and slightly surreal disappointments, frustrations and failures raging beneath. The upshot was a huge, unprecedented voice for unspoken ...

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