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  2. Middlemarch - Wikipedia

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    Although a precise date is unknown, the process of incorporating material from "Middlemarch " into the story she had been working on was ongoing by March 1871. [ 8 ] [ 4 ] While composing, Eliot compiled a notebook of hundreds of literary quotations, from poets, historians, playwrights, philosophers, and critics in eight different languages.

  3. House (game) - Wikipedia

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    House, also referred to as "playing house" or "play grown up", is a traditional children's game. It is a form of make-believe where players take on the roles of a nuclear family . Common roles include parents, children, a newborn, and pets.

  4. Filumena Marturano - Wikipedia

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    The play achieved great success, so great in fact that for many years afterwards Titina was called Filumena in Italy rather than her own. [ citation needed ] Thanks to an arrangement made by Carlo Trabucco, the editor of the daily Italian Christian Democrat newspaper Il Popolo , an audience was arranged for the cast to meet Pope Pius XII in a ...

  5. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    This kind of play-within-a-play, which appears at the beginning of the main play and acts as a "frame" for it, is called an "induction". Brecht's one-act play The Elephant Calf (1926) is a play-within-a-play performed in the foyer of the theatre during his Man Equals Man .

  6. Takekurabe - Wikipedia

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    Takekurabe was translated into English as They Compare Heights by W.M. Bickerton in 1930, as Growing Up by Edward Seidensticker in 1956, and as Child's Play by Robert Lyons Danly in 1981. [1] A translation under the title Teenagers Vying for Tops was provided by Seizo Nobunaga in 1953 or 1960, depending on the source. [1] [8]

  7. George Eliot - Wikipedia

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    In the 20th century she was championed by a new breed of critics, most notably by Virginia Woolf, who called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". [4] In 1994, literary critic Harold Bloom placed Eliot among the most important Western writers of all time. [64]

  8. Dramatic theory - Wikipedia

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    Drama is defined as a form of art in which a written play is used as basis for a performance. [1]: 63 Dramatic theory is studied as part of theatre studies. [2] Drama creates a sensory impression in its viewers during the performance. This is the main difference from both poetry and epics, which evoke imagination in the reader.

  9. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wikipedia

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    The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers' Company on 8 October 1600 by the bookseller Thomas Fisher, who published the first quarto edition later that year. [6] A second quarto was printed in 1619 by William Jaggard, as part of his so-called False Folio. [6] The play next appeared in print in the First Folio of 1623.