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Charles L. Mee was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Charles Louis Mee Sr. and his wife Sarah Elizabeth (Lowe) Mee. [1] He grew up in Barrington, Illinois, after the family moved there from Evanston. Mee contracted polio at the age of fourteen. His memoir A Nearly Normal Life (1999) tells how that event informed the rest of his life.
Big Love is a play by American playwright Charles L. Mee. Based on Aeschylus's The Suppliants , it is about fifty brides who flee to a manor in Italy to avoid marrying their fifty cousins. The play takes the plot of the original Greek play into modern times, including such details as having the grooms ambush the brides by helicopter.
Betrayal is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978. Critically regarded as one of the English playwright's major dramatic works, it features his characteristically economical dialogue, characters' hidden emotions and veiled motivations, and their self-absorbed competitive one-upmanship, face-saving, dishonesty, and (self-) deceptions.
The story begins in 1912 London, where 17-year-old Hillary Dearborn finds herself pregnant, unmarried, and expelled by an elite boarding school.
It was a moderate success, but for Engaged he returned to his usual absurdist approach, inventing a cast of characters whose motivation is not love but money. [11] Possibly to underline the contrast, in the new play he cast in the mercenary female lead role Marion Terry , who in Dan'l Druce had played a sentimental part.
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. [1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.
Intrigue and Love, sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics, or Luise Miller (German: Kabale und Liebe, pronounced [kaˈbaːlə ʔʊnt ˈliːbə] ⓘ; literally "Cabal and Love") is a five-act play written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller. His third play, it was first performed on 13 April 1784 at Schauspiel Frankfurt. The play ...
Meanwhile, local gang leader "Pearly" Gates – who operates with the front of an effete French couturier called Charles Jules in a London fashion house, Maison Jules, on Old Bond Street, Westminster, which is much more profitable line of work for him – finds his criminal takings cut severely. It quickly transpires that Pearly's girlfriend ...