Early examples of the foreshadowing technique of repetitive designation, now known as " Chekhov's gun ", occur in the One Thousand and One Nights, which contains " repeated references to some character or object which appears insignificant when first mentioned but which reappears later to intrude suddenly in the narrative ".

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It is an example of Chekhov's gun, as it has been repeatedly mentioned or manufactured but has not yet been used:

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Finally the classic " loaded gun " that appears in many of Chekhov's plays appears here, but this is his only play in which a gun is shown but not fired.

Chekhov's gun refers to a situation in which a character or plot element is introduced early in the narrative, then not referenced again until much later.

Both Chekhov's gun and plants are used as elements of foreshadowing.

" Chekhov's gun " is often used as an example of foreshadowing, with the sight of the gun preparing the audience for its eventual use.

Failure to observe the rule of " Chekhov's gun " may be cited by critics when discussing plot holes.

* Red herring, the opposite of Chekhov's gun: a plot device that is designed to divert attention

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William Walton's score for the 1970 film Three Sisters, based on Chekhov's play, is dominated by the theme.

Leo Tolstoy spent summers there and Anton Chekhov in 1898 bought a house ( the White Dacha ) here, where he lived till 1902 ; Yalta is the setting for Chekhov's short story, " The Lady with the Dog ", and such prominent plays as The Three Sisters were written in Yalta.

A Melbourne lawyer once remarked that Incitatus would have the numbers for premier in Victoria, and in act III of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ( 1904 ) Pishchik says that his family is " descended from that very nag Caligula inducted in the Senate.

It has also been suggested that the character of Vershinin in Anton Chekhov's play The Three Sisters is a dedicated Spencerian.

Anton Chekhov's first play is a one-act sketch titled " Swan Song ," which he wrote in 1887.

This is a gallant authorial gesture, as when a professor at Cornell, Nabokov had complained from the lectern of authors who ask readers to accept a character's gifts on faith: " The author has hinted already that Gurov focus of Chekhov's Lady with the Little Dog was witty in the company of women: and instead of having the reader take it for granted ( you know the old method of describing the talk as ' brilliant ' but giving no samples of the conversation ), Chekhov makes him joke in a really attractive, winning way.

Her English is not only nearly contemporaneous to Chekhov's, it is often comparable.

This phrase is misquoted in Act I of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull.

Aivazovsky is referenced in Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya.

The Notebook of Trigorin is a play by American playwright Tennessee Williams, adapted from Anton Chekhov's drama The Seagull ( 1895 ).

Uncle Vanya is unique among Chekhov's major plays because it is essentially an extensive reworking of his own play published a decade earlier, The Wood Demon .< ref name = act >

The Cherry Orchard ( Вишнëвый сад or Vishnyovy sad in Russian ) is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play.

While the Marxist view of the play is more prevalent, an alternative view is that The Cherry Orchard was Chekhov's tribute to himself.

She then returned to the West End ( briefly returning to the Old Vic to play Emilia in their 1938 Othello ), notably playing Edith Gunter in Dodie Smith's Autumn Crocus ( Lyric, 1931 ), the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well ( Arts, 1932 ), Lady Strawholme in Ivor Novello's Fresh Fields ( Criterion, 1933 ), Liz Frobisher in John Van Druten's The Distaff Side ( Apollo, 1933 ), Barbara Dawe in Clemence Dane's Moonlight is Silver ( Queen's, 1934 ), Theodora in Elmer Rice's Not for Children ( Fortune, 1935 ), Masha in Chekhov's The Seagull ( New Theatre, 1936 ), the Mother in an English-language version of Garcia Lorca's Bodas de sangre entitled Marriage of Blood ( Savoy, 1939 ), Léonie in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents terribles ( Gate, 1940 ), Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( Westminster, 1943 ), and Cornelia in John Webster's The White Devil ( Duchess, 1947 ).

One of the most popular references of a Russian name day is the entire first act of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, where Irina is celebrating her name day.

The great Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski developed storyboards in his detailed production plans for his Moscow Art Theatre performances ( such as of Chekhov's The Seagull in 1898 ).

Also highlights the role Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya ( for which he received an Obie Award ).

In March, the Sydney Theatre Company and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that STC's 2010 production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya would be reprised in Washington, D. C. during the month of August In April, months of speculation finally ended when Weaving appeared on The Hobbit's New Zealand set, shortly before a production spokesman officially confirmed the actor's return as Elrond in Peter Jackson's two-film prequel to Lord of the Rings.

Following a savaging by English critics after her London performance of " Masha " in an Actors Studio production of Anton Chekhov's play The Three Sisters ( 1965 ) she vowed never to perform on stage again, a vow she kept for the rest of her life.

Mendes first attracted attention before he was twenty-five years old for his production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in the West End which starred Judi Dench.

She played both Cordelia and the Fool in a 1984 staging of King Lear by the Nimrod Theatre Company, and also starred in its productions of Strindberg's Miss Julie, Chekhov's The Bear, Louis Nowra's Inside The Island and, in 1986, the title role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for the Sydney Theatre Company

In summer 2007, Guettel composed incidental music for a production of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya at the Intiman Playhouse in Seattle, Washington.

Nemirovich overcame Chekhov's refusal to allow the play to appear in Moscow and convinced Stanislavski to direct the play for their innovative and newly founded Moscow Art Theatre in 1898.

Stanislavski's attention to psychological realism and ensemble playing coaxed the buried subtleties from the play and revived Chekhov's interest in writing for the stage.

" While she makes elementary blunders, her care in unravelling difficult syntactical knots and her research on the right terms for Chekhov's many plants, birds and fish are impressive ....

Mikhalkov's next film, An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano ( 1977 ) was adapted by Mikhalkov from Chekhov's early play, Platonov, and won the first prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Butler translated the text for Guthrie's 1934 production of Anton Chekhov's Cherry Orchard, for perhaps its first English-language production.

Today, Chekhov's Yalta garden survives alongside The Cherry Orchard as a monument to a man whose feeling for trees equaled his feeling for theatre.

Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years ( with Keith Michell ), Beekman Place ( for which she also designed the set ), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company ; both productions toured Australia.

In Chekhov's Russia, marriage was a means of economic stability for most people.