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Chekhov then. Chekhov now. Chekhov forever

Philadelphia, meet Anton Chekhov. In 2005, Walt Whitman came to town, with the 150th anniversary of the debut of the Camden bard's Leaves of Grass. Last year, Jane Austen stomped in, partying like it was 2013 for the bicentennial of Pride and Prejudice. Shakespeare visits, it seems, every year (including this one, the 450th anniversary of his birth).

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