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[A coffee-houseFerrando, Don Alfonso and Guglielmo]No. i TrioFerrandoMy Dorabella couldn’tDo such a thing:Heaven made herAs faithful as she’s fair.GuglielmoFiordiligi simplyCouldn…
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1790
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Merv:Sara, can I have my shirt? I’ve got a lunch date with the rabbi of Dublin.
Sara:Mervyn, you came all the way to Queen Anne’s Gate. Please sit a minute.
Tess:Sit down, Merv. I’ll get your shirt. W…
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Wendy Wasserstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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An Explanation of the Plot of this Book
Naʿma is the daughter of a caïd of one of the regions in Iraq, and Nuʿman is her paternal first cousin, whom she married while her father was still alive. When…
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Abraham Daninos
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Algiers, French Algeria
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1847
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A Play by Molière in One Act of Sixteen Scenes[Carlo, Esterina]Carlo:Is there any news, Esterina? Do you have any advice for me?Esterina:Why do you want advice? I have a lot of news for you…
Contributor:
Anonymous
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1873
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ned’s apartment. It is stark, modern, all black and white.felixcomes walking in from another room with a beer, andnedfollows, carrying one, too.
Felix:That’s quite a library in there…
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Larry Kramer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
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Yetkhen:
And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
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Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia
(Wrocław, Poland)
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1796
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Gadhi, A Paria
Maja, his Wife
Benassar, Indian Attendant
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Michael Beer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1823
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[Leidental’Sroom. Evening. Leidental. One of his fingers is bandaged.]
Leidental:[To himself.] At eight fifteen I felt I cannot any more with myself. I had: regulation misery, pain to top…
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Hanoch Levin
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1972
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Tobey’s Voice:I find as I grow older that I keep going back to my friendship with Willie—when we were young and happy and living in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the early years of the century…
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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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Murray:People fall into two distinct categories. Miss Markowitz; people who like delicatessen, and people who don’t like delicatessen. A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot…
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Herb Gardner
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1962