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Claudia
Claudia (1941), a comedy by Rose Franken. [Booth Theatre, 453 perf.] David Naughton ( Donald Cook) is a successful architect living on a colonial farm he has lovingly restored. He is more or less happily married, although he is not certain about this matter since his beautiful wife Claudia ( Dorothy McGuire) has never quite grown up. She has a mother‐fixation and never seems entirely sure of her sexual appeal. When she impetuously sells the farm to an opera singer and has a brief flirtation with a handsome young Englishman, David is exasperated. Then Claudia learns that her mother ( Frances Starr) is dying and she seems suddenly to mature. “Yes, it's like a miracle,” her mother remarks. “It's just as if she were the mother and I were the child.” Claudia agrees to return the opera singer's check and to settle down to being a wife. Franken's first play since Another Language nine years earlier (and her only other success), the John Golden–produced comedy was welcomed by Richard Watts Jr. of the Herald Tribune as “the best new American play of the season.” Claudia was especially popular with women audiences.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Claudia." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Claudia." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Claudia.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Claudia." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Claudia.html |
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Claudia
Claudia ♀ From the Latin female name, a feminine form of Claudius. The name is mentioned in one of St Paul's letters to Timothy (2, 4:21 ‘Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren’), as a result of which it was taken up in the 16th century and has since maintained a steady popularity.
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Claudia." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Claudia." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Claudia1.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Claudia." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Claudia1.html |
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Claudia , Christian who sent greetings to Timothy, as recorded in Paul's Letter to Timothy. |
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"Claudia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Claudia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Claudia.html "Claudia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Claudia.html |
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Claudia
Claudia ♀ (German) From the Latin family name Claudius.
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Claudia." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Claudia." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Claudia.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Claudia." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Claudia.html |
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"Claudia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Claudia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Claudia.html "Claudia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Claudia.html |
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