''O scrisoare pierdută'' (

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for "A Lost Letter") is a play by

Ion Luca Caragiale Ion Luca 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), commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale, was a Romanians, ...

. 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''. It was first performed in English in 2019 at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London. The translation is available here: https://www.pdf2html5.com/pdfupload/server/php/uploads/admin_oxffauqbza/lost-letter-2019/complete.php

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* 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), scoundrel greedy for power * Ștefan Tipătescu: the prefect of the county, celibate, arrogant and abusive treats his county like his own estate, Zoe Trahanache's lover * Zaharia Trahanache: President of the Permanent Committee, of the Electoral Committee, of the School Committee, of the Agricultural Committee and of other Committees, aware of his wife's affair, but which he accepts * Zoe Trahanache: Trahanache wife, the coquettish type, intelligent, authoritative, ambitious, Ștefan Tipătescu's lover * Ghiță Pristanda: the town's policeman, the all-round good man of prefect Ștefan Tipătescu, who often uses him as a kind of personal servant * Cetățeanul turmentat: character of the comedy that hides one of the most subtle dramaturgical tricks of the brilliant Caragiale – in a society that has lost the cult for authentic human values, honesty could appear as a vice and would have disturbed the intrinsic order of the play, so that the playwright was forced to create a vicious person in order to endow him with certain qualities * Agamemnon (Agamiță) Dandanache: an old warrior from the 1848 Revolution, "stupider than Farfuridi and more scoundrel than Cațavencu" * Tache Farfuridi: lawyer, member of the committees above mentioned, fanfaron and

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* Iordache Brânzovenescu: member of Trahanache's political team forms, together with Farfuridi, a comic couple, both by behavior and by their names with culinary resonances

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Tudor Vianu Tudor Vianu (; January 8, 1898 – May 21, 1964) was a Romanian literary criticism, literary critic, art critic, poet, philosopher, academic, and translation, translator. He had a major role on the reception and development of Modernism in Liter ...

, ''Scriitori români'', Vol. I–III, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1970–1971 {{DEFAULTSORT:Scrisoare pierduta, O 1884 plays Plays by Ion Luca Caragiale Comedy plays Romanian political satire Political satire plays Works originally read at Junimea National Liberal Party (Romania) Romanian plays adapted into films

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