NEW YORK, N.Y. - The downward spiral of once-wealthy people who can no longer pay their mortgage, or even the interest on it, has a disturbingly contemporary resonance. Yet that exact situation was described with both pathos and humour by Anton Chekhov in 1903, in his final masterpiece, "The Cherry Orchard," a play about the late 19th-century collapse of the Russian aristocracy some decades ...
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