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  2. Trifles (play) - Wikipedia

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    A year after Trifles' success, Glaspell turned the play into a short story, retitling it "A Jury of Her Peers". Glaspell used third-person, limited-omniscient narration to express the point of view of Martha Hale. "A Jury of Her Peers" adds irony by "highlighting the impossibility of women facing such a jury at a time when women were ...

  3. Closet drama - Wikipedia

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    A closet drama (or closet play) is a play created primarily for reading, rather than production. Closet dramas are traditionally defined in narrower terms as belonging to a genre of dramatic writing unconcerned with stage technique. Stageability is only one aspect of closet drama: historically, playwrights might choose the genre of 'closet ...

  4. The Lady with the Dog - Wikipedia

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    The Lady with the Dog. " The Lady with the Dog " ( Russian: Дама с собачкой, romanized : Dama s sobachkoy) [a] is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between an unhappily married Moscow banker and a young married woman that begins while both are vacationing alone in Yalta.

  5. The Landlady (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Plot. Billy Weaver is a seventeen-year-old youth who has travelled by train from London to Bath to start a new job. Looking for lodgings, he comes across a boarding-house and feels strangely compelled by its sign saying "Bed and Breakfast". Through the window, he notices a parrot in a cage and a sleeping dachshund on the floor.

  6. The Best Short-Story Collections of 2023

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    Witness, by Jamel Brinkley. Brinkley’s stories are set in Brooklyn, where he mines every moment—the opening of an animal rescue, a dance between an older woman and a younger man, rotting ...

  7. Sinf-e-Aahan - Wikipedia

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    Sinf-e-Aahan ( Urdu: صنف آہن, lit. 'Women of Steel') is a Pakistani television series produced by Next Level Entertainment and Six Sigma Plus in collaboration with ISPR. It is directed by Nadeem Baig and written by Umera Ahmad. The serial stars Sajal Aly, Kubra Khan, Yumna Zaidi, Ramsha Khan and Syra Yousuf.

  8. Everyman (15th-century play) - Wikipedia

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    The Somonyng of Everyman ( The Summoning of Everyman ), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play by an anonymous English author, printed circa 1530. It is possibly a translation of the Dutch play Elckerlijc (Everyman). Like John Bunyan 's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical ...

  9. Proserpine (play) - Wikipedia

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    Proserpine. (play) Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1874) Proserpine [1] is a verse drama written for children by the English Romantic writers Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary wrote the blank verse drama and Percy contributed two lyric poems. Composed in 1820 while the Shelleys were living in Italy, it is often ...