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  • 101Terry Johnson (dramatist) — Terry Johnson (born 1955) is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte… …

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  • 102Julian Dutton — is a British comedy writer and performer principally for television and radio,whose work has won a British Comedy Award and a BAFTA. Perhaps best known as one of the driving forces behind the hit BBC1 comedy show The Big Impression with Alistair… …

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  • 103theatre, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of the Western theatre from its origins in pre Classical antiquity to the present.       For a discussion of drama as a literary form, see dramatic literature and the articles on individual national literatures.… …

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  • 104mute — I. /mjut / (say myooht) adjective 1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance. 2. not emitting or having sound of any kind. 3. incapable of speech. 4. Phonetics (of letters) silent; not pronounced. 5. (of a hound in fox hunting) not giving… …

  • 105St. Francis of Assisi —     St. Francis of Assisi     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Francis of Assisi     Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181 or 1182 the exact year is uncertain; died there, 3 October, 1226.     His father, Pietro… …

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  • 106Latin literature — Introduction       the body of writings in Latin, primarily produced during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, when Latin was a spoken language. When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was …

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  • 107acting — Synonyms and related words: act, action, active, activism, activity, ad interim, affectation, aping, appearance, at work, attitudinizing, behavior, behavioral, bluff, bluffing, buffoonery, business, characterization, cheating, color, coloring,… …

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  • 108masquerade — Synonyms and related words: Kaffeeklatsch, accouter, act, act a part, act as, act out, acting, affectation, ape, aping, appearance, attitudinize, attitudinizing, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, ballet skirt, barn dance, be incognito, blowout …

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  • 109posing — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, aping, appearance, attitudinarianism, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, characterization, cheating, color, coloring, deception, delusion, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dumb… …

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  • 110Crambo — Cram bo ( b[ o]), n. [Cf. {Cramp}, a., difficult.] 1. A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. [1913 Webster] I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I… …

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