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  2. 4.50 from Paddington - Wikipedia

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    4.50 from Paddington is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in November 1957 in the United Kingdom by Collins Crime Club.This work was published in the United States at the same time as What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!, by Dodd, Mead.

  3. Satyr play - Wikipedia

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    Satyr play. A drinking cup, c. 490–480 B.C., depicting a maenad and a satyr. The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and tragedy. It preserves theatrical elements of dialogue, actors speaking verse, a chorus that dances and sings, masks and costumes. Its relationship to tragedy is strong; satyr plays were ...

  4. Nadia Davids - Wikipedia

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    www .nadiadavids .com. Nadia Davids (born in Cape Town, 1977) [1] is a South African playwright, novelist, and author of short stories and screenplays. Her work has been published, produced, and performed in Southern Africa, Europe, and the United States. She was a Philip Leverhulme Prize winner in 2013. Her play What Remains won five Fleur du ...

  5. Revenge play - Wikipedia

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    Origins. Most scholars argue that the revenge tragedies of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries stemmed from Roman tragedy, in particular, Seneca's Thyestes. Seneca's tragedies followed three main themes: the inconsistency of fortune (), stories of crime and the evils of murder (Thyestes), and plays in which poverty, chastity and simplicity are celebrated ().

  6. Dramatic theory - Wikipedia

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    Modern dramatic theory is based on the idea that drama is a plurimedial form of art. Therefore, a drama cannot be completely comprehended from the text alone. Understanding requires the combination of the text as a substrate and the specific performance of the play. Older theories saw the performance as limited to the interpretation of the text.

  7. Svapnavasavadattam - Wikipedia

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    Everybody is gratified and the play comes to an end on a happy note. Reception. Svapnavasavadattam is considered to be a masterpiece of Bhāsa. The play, along with Bhāsa's other 12 plays, was first translated into English by A. C. Woolner and Lakshman Sarup in 1930–31. It was translated into Malayalam by A. R. Raja Raja Varma in 1917.

  8. Writing Drama - Wikipedia

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    9782910606015. Writing Drama (French: La dramaturgie) is a treatise by French writer and filmmaker Yves Lavandier, originally published in 1994, revised in 1997, 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The English version was translated from the French by Bernard Besserglik and published in 2005. The book exists also in Italian, [1] Spanish [2] and Portuguese.

  9. A Feast in Time of Plague - Wikipedia

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    A Feast in Time of Plague ( Russian: «Пир во время чумы», romanized : Pir vo vremya chumy) is an 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin. The plot concerns a banquet in which the central figure taunts death with a toast "And so, O Plague, we hail thy reign!". The story is based on 4th scene of Act 1 of John Wilson 's play The City of ...