Celebrate a playwright who has provided us with a lasting legacy. Anton Chekov, born January 29, 1860. He eventually decided authors should be dispassionate, and recommended: “1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.”
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