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Henry V

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"Best from the best--and the only one where the bard writes dialect (Irish, Scottish, English, French and esp H's own, and Fluellen's Welsh: "Alexander the Pig" Don't you mean the Great? "The Pig and the Great is the same…) Is it a history? A comedy? A tragedy--for the French at Agincourt.
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Tartuffe

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"Nice to know Muslims did not invent religious hypocrisy. Jimmy Swaggart and Newt Gingrich did this live--in their lives.
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Lysistrata and Other Plays

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"Chi-raq. Need I say more? May be the only answer to NRA--though they're mostly Viagra clients. Not so in the yng Gk armi
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Twelfth Night

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"The only American in Shakespeare, Malvolio wants to marry his boss--for which he's sent to the madhouse. His idea waited 200 years and a Revolution to be accepted for awhile, no longer.
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King Lear

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"Greatest writing in lit, but will not attend bec of the blinding of G."
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Candelaio:  A New Stage Tra...

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"A great, baggy plot--the first street hoods in drama (Neapolitans). Too sexual for 21C performance--with a would-be pederast Latin teacher, a "reformed" gay marrid, searching a (f) lover, a workaholic scientist, and psychologist-drugseller-witch. Best 1st play ever written, way ahead of Titus--though maybe not Moliere.
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Горе от ума

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"The greatest Russian play, on foreign (German, a la Catherine the Great) undermining--shades of Trump '15.
Written by a young ambassador to Iran killed when the embassy was overrun. 150 year before another empire's embassy was overrun.
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L'École des Femmes

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"Why universities should not promote women--or should.
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Le Médecin Malgré Lui

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"Hilarious and revelatory, say when the med student, fiance reads his medical thesis (e.g., on flatulence) to is fiancee. Or is that Le Malade imaginaire? Oh-oh (lu il ya trente ans)."
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Don Giovanni

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Six Characters in Search of...

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As You Like It

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Arcadia

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The Winter's Tale

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King Henry IV, Part 1

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The Inspector General

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The Pot of Gold and Other P...

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Cymbeline

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The Playboy of the Western ...

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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

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Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

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The School for Wives / The ...

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Five Plays

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A Doll's House

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Pygmalion

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An Ideal Husband

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The Country Wife

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Le Malade Imaginaire

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Indian Ink

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West Side Story

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message 1: by Alan (new)

Alan I've seen my 1-8 stage, but not my last two. I'm voting mostly on reading. For ex., I despise Titus And., Shakespeare as beginner. But a friend saw Olivier in it, 5 times (she's a costume pro)…Might change my opinion.


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