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Trojan Women: A Love Story
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Charles L. Mee
Charles L. Mee is an American playwright, historian and author known for his collage-like style of playwriting that utilizes radical reconstructions of found texts.
Mee was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1938. He led a typical middle-class, Midwestern boyhood until he contracted polio at the age of...
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Les Troyens
Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic...
The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women (in Greek: Τρῳάδες, Trōades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a...
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