Which playwright, a physician by training, wrote 'The Cherry Orchard', 'The Seagull', and 'Uncle Vanya' before dying of tuberculosis in 1904?

• A Nikolai Gogol
• B Anton Chekhov ✓
• C Maxim Gorky
• D Alexander Ostrovsky

Anton Chekhov transformed both the modern short story and theatre with his understated realism and the principle of 'Chekhov's gun' dramatic economy.