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  2. The Government Inspector - Wikipedia

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    The film bears only passing resemblance to the original play. Kaye's version sets the story in Napoleon's empire, instead of Russia, and the main character presented to be the ersatz inspector general is not a haughty young government bureaucrat, but a down-and-out illiterate, run out of a gypsy's travelling medicine show for not being greedy ...

  3. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    Characters Main article: Characters in Hamlet Hamlet – son of the late king and nephew of the present king, Claudius Claudius – King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and brother to the former king Gertrude – Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother Polonius – chief counsellor to the king Ophelia – Polonius's daughter Horatio – friend of Hamlet Laertes – Polonius's son Voltimand and ...

  4. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]

  5. Ediriweera Sarachchandra - Wikipedia

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    sarachchandra .org. Signature. Veditantirige Ediriweera Ranjitha Sarachchandra (born Veditantirige Eustace Reginold de Silva; 3 June 1914 – 16 August 1996), popularly known as Ediriweera Sarachchandra Sinhala: එදිරිවීර සරච්චන්ද්‍ර ), was a Sri Lankan playwright, novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist ...

  6. Shakuntala (play) - Wikipedia

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    A ballet version of Kālidāsa's play, Sacountalâ, on a libretto by Théophile Gautier and with music by Ernest Reyer, was first performed in Paris in 1858. A plot summary of the play was printed in the score edition of Karl Goldmark's Overture to Sakuntala, Op. 13 (1865). Sigismund Bachrich composed a Sakuntala ballet in 1884.

  7. Category:Gothic short stories - Wikipedia

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    The Secret of Macarger's Gulch. The Spectre-Barber. The Spook House. The Storm (Utterson short story) The Striding Place. Subsoil (short story)

  8. Nadia Davids - Wikipedia

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    Nadia Davids (born in Cape Town, 1977) 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 Cap Theatre Awards.

  9. ScreenPlay - Wikipedia

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    ScreenPlay is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background [ edit ] After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, feature length filmed dramas, including ScreenPlay . [1]