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The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree. The story was inspired by the real-life Ethel Proudlock case which involved the wife of the headmaster of Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was eventually pardoned.

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  • The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree. The story was inspired by the real-life Ethel Proudlock case which involved the wife of the headmaster of Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was eventually pardoned. (en)
  • La lettera (The Letter) è un dramma in tre atti di William Somerset Maugham rappresentato per la prima volta nel 1927 al Playhouse Theatre di Londra, tratto dal racconto omonimo dello stesso autore. (it)
  • 『手紙』(原題: The Letter)はサマセット・モームによる短編小説およびそれをもとにした戯曲である。1926年の短編集『』(The Casuarina Tree) に最初に短編が収録され、その後舞台化された。物語は、クアラルンプールの学校長の妻で1911年4月に男友達を射殺した後殺人罪で裁判にかけられた女性に関する実際のスキャンダルから発想を得たものである。この女性は結局、釈放された。物語の筋の鍵になっている「手紙」は劇的効果を増すためのモームの創作で、実話に基づくものではない。 (ja)
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  • 1927-02-24 (xsd:date)
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  • 1927-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • A plantation in the Malay Peninsula, and Singapore
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  • First edition (en)
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  • The Letter (en)
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  • English (en)
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  • Playhouse Theatre, London (en)
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  • 1927-02-24 (xsd:date)
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  • A plantation in the Malay Peninsula, and Singapore (en)
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  • The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree. The story was inspired by the real-life Ethel Proudlock case which involved the wife of the headmaster of Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was eventually pardoned. (en)
  • La lettera (The Letter) è un dramma in tre atti di William Somerset Maugham rappresentato per la prima volta nel 1927 al Playhouse Theatre di Londra, tratto dal racconto omonimo dello stesso autore. (it)
  • 『手紙』(原題: The Letter)はサマセット・モームによる短編小説およびそれをもとにした戯曲である。1926年の短編集『』(The Casuarina Tree) に最初に短編が収録され、その後舞台化された。物語は、クアラルンプールの学校長の妻で1911年4月に男友達を射殺した後殺人罪で裁判にかけられた女性に関する実際のスキャンダルから発想を得たものである。この女性は結局、釈放された。物語の筋の鍵になっている「手紙」は劇的効果を増すためのモームの創作で、実話に基づくものではない。 (ja)
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  • La lettera (dramma) (it)
  • 手紙 (モーム) (ja)
  • The Letter (play) (en)
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  • The Letter (en)
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