The drunken estate manager (*) Borkin schemes to pay back Zinaida's loans to this play's title character, who informs his disowned wife of Dr. Lvov's fatal diagnosis after she confronts him over his abortive affair with Lebedev's daughter Sasha.
One character in this play denounces his daughter's principles as "like Schopenhauer, all nonsense" because she refuses her grandmother's dowry. As part of this play's extensive revision, a soliloquy in which the protagonist bemoans how over the past year he has come to despise himself as a pathetic coward was added to Act Three. This play ends with the plea, "For God's sake! Stop him!" from a girl who praises women's understanding of "active love" to exhort her lover to remain true to his wife. The drunken estate manager (*) Borkin schemes to pay back Zinaida's loans to this play's title character, who informs his disowned wife of Dr. Lvov's fatal diagnosis after she confronts him over his abortive affair with Lebedev's daughter Sasha. For 10 points, name this chronicle of the increasingly suicidal despair of the bankrupt husband of the consumptive converted Jew Anna Petrovna, the first dramatic success of Anton Chekhov.
One character in this play denounces his daughter's principles as "like Schopenhauer, all nonsense" because she refuses her grandmother's dowry.
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