figure
Stella
also: Стелла
The ingenue heroine of the fictitious melodrama Chekhov's sketch pretends to excerpt, who discovers her true noble parentage and rushes to free her imprisoned father -- a stock figure rather than a real or independently attested character.
Reading notes
- Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights §11 Stella
The ingenue heroine, billed -- absurdly -- as "the impresario's sister," a dig at how such companies cast leading roles.