The article presents an attempt to analyze the generic peculiarities of H. Ibsen’s (1828–1906) and A. Chekhov’s (1860– 1904) plays. Both of them were the first writers to combine comic and tragic elements in their plays in an original way, perplexing their readers and critics. Chekhov also insisted on entitling his plays “comedies”. The Three Sisters for instance Chekhov named a “funny comedy”; though it was “a drama” in the manuscripts. This should not be regarded as an “ironical commentary”. The irony and the ambiguity of the plays make the reader understand the hopelessness of the situation the characters appeared to be in. The main subject of the paper is the comparison of some plays by Ibsen and Chekhov in terms of the organic balance between the comic and the tragic, a technique widely used and modified by the authors.