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Across Marriage & Family, Theater, Drama, and English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Wise Children by Angela Carter.

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Nassim Soleimanpour: Two Plays

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Anatomy of a Suicide — Alice Birch

Anatomy of a Suicide

Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Conversations After Sex and Trade — Mark O’Halloran

Conversations After Sex and Trade — Mark O’Halloran

Mark O'Halloran

Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Ching Room and Turbo Folk: Two Plays by Alan Bissett — Alan Bissett

The Ching Room and Turbo Folk: Two Plays

Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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The Elephant Man A Drama

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Four Tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth — William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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William Shakespeare

Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

Themes: Theater • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Fans of Wise Children by Angela Carter will find 24 titles here, all united by Marriage & Family, Theater, Drama. Authors represented include John Stokes, Hannah Maxwell, Philip C. Kolin, Chanita Goodblatt, and others.

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