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    Aristotle is said to have written several philosophical dialogues in Plato's style (of which only fragments survive). In the 2nd century CE, Christian...
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    having learnt the "absurdities" of Aesop from conversation at banquets; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his time in prison turning some...
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  • M. M. McCabe (category Commentators on Plato)
    humanities and social sciences. Plato on Punishment (1981) Plato's Individuals (1994) Plato and His Predecessors: The Dramatisation of Reason (2007) Platonic...
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    Theatre presentation of Jane McCulloch's Dearest Nancy, Darling Evelyn, the dramatised letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. From 2012, Fielding performed...
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  • Islington, London, on 22 August 2012. Some of Bawden's 55 books have been dramatised by BBC children's television. Many have been published in translation...
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  • the author's interest in the philosophy of Plato, it is highly likely that "the Cave" is a reference to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". A major recurring...
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    practical sense of the theatre. Like all playwrights of the time, he dramatised stories from sources such as Plutarch and Holinshed. He reshaped each...
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    transformed Death in Venice into an opera, his last, in 1973. The novella was dramatised by Peter Wolf for BBC Radio 3 in 1997. John Neumeier adapted it for a...
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  • to the soul". Plato was an undeniable influence on Lewis's writing of The Chronicles. Most clearly, Digory explicitly invokes Plato's name at the end...
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  • as Julius Caesar. He did not present these people as pure history, but dramatised their lives as a commentary about the people and politics of his own time...
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