Chekhov's gun--a theory by the great Russian playwright that if a gun appears onstage in Act I, it will be used by the end of the show. "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to
go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." Chekhov,
letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev, 1
November 1889.
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