What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages?

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It is a cold day in North London, the wind biting at the ears much as it sometimes does in distant Beijing, where the British actor and onetime China resident Mark Kitto studied Chinese in 1986.

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Each chapter focuses on somewhere important in Chekhov's life, and on the people who lived and worked there: the Greeks and Italians who formed much of the population of Taganrog, the once important ...

Then there’s Chekhov’s gun. The Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov stipulated that if such a weapon were to appear in the first act of a play, it would have to be fired before the end.