''O scrisoare pierdută'' (
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for "A Lost Letter") is a play by
Ion Luca Caragiale
Ion Luca Caragiale (; commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale; According to his birth certificate, published and discussed by Constantin Popescu-Cadem in ''Manuscriptum'', Vol. VIII, Nr. 2, 1977, pp. 179-184 – 9 June 1912) was a Romanian playw ...
. It premiered in 1884, and arguably represents the high point of his career.
[Vianu, Vol. II, p.180]
It was adapted into a 1953 film ''
A Lost Letter
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''.
Characters
* Nae Cațavencu: lawyer, manager and owner of the „Răcnetul Carpaților” (The Roar of the Carpathians) newspaper, president and founder of the Enciclopedic- Cooperative Society „Aurora Economică Română” (the Romanian Economical Aurora)
* Zaharia Trahanache: President of the Permanent Committee, of the Electoral Committee, of the School Committee, of the Agricultural Committee and of other Committees.
* Zoe Trahanache: the wife of the above mentioned
* Ghiță Pristanda: the town's policeman
* Cetățeanul turmentat (the drunk citizen)
* Agamemnon (Agamiță) Dandanache: an old warrior from the 1848 Revolution
* Tache Farfuridi: lawyer, member of the committees above mentioned
* Iordache Brânzovenescu: same
* Ștefan Tipătescu: the prefect of the county.
* Ionescu: elementary school teacher, collaborator of the above mentioned newspaper and member of the Society
* Popescu: same
* Voters, Citizen and Public
See also
*
List of Romanian plays
Notes
References
*
Tudor Vianu
Tudor Vianu (; January 8, 1898 – May 21, 1964) was a Romanian literary critic, art critic, poet, philosopher, academic, and translator. He had a major role on the reception and development of Modernism in Romanian literature and art. He was m ...
, ''Scriitori români'', Vol. I-III, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1970-1971.
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1884 plays
Romanian plays adapted into films
Romanian plays
Works by Ion Luca Caragiale