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Neil Simon's The Good Doctor is a play composed of a series of scenes in which the only connecting thread is the character of the Writer, a curious amalgamation of Simon himself and Anton Chekhov. Written in the style of Chekhovian comedy, this play was a reaction to the fatal illness of his wife. Simon found solace in Chekhov's work, having learned that the Russian's wife had also died young, of tuberculosis.
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