O scrisoare pierdută

O scrisoare pierdută
Written by	Ion Luca Caragiale
Date premiered	1884 (1884)
Place premiered	National Theatre Bucharest
Original language	Romanian
Genre	comedy

O scrisoare pierdută (Romanian for "A Lost Letter") is a play by Ion Luca Caragiale. It premiered in 1884, and arguably represents the high point of his career.

It was adapted into a 1953 film A Lost Letter.

Characters

• Nae Cațavencu: lawyer, manager and owner of the „Răcnetul Carpaților” (The Roar of the Carpathians) newspaper, president and founder of the Enciclopedic- Cooperative Society „Aurora Economică Română” (the Romanian Economical Aurora)
• Zaharia Trahanache: President of the Permanent Committee, of the Electoral Committee, of the School Committee, of the Agricultural Committee and of other Committees.
• Zoe Trahanache: the wife of the above mentioned
• Ghiță Pristanda: the town's policeman
• Cetățeanul turmentat (the troubled citizen)
• Agamemnon (Agamiță) Dandanache: an old warrior from the 1848 Revolution
• Tache Farfuridi: lawyer, member of the committees above mentioned
• Iordache Brânzovenescu: same
• Ștefan Tipătescu: the prefect of the county.
• Ionescu: elementary school teacher, collaborator of the above mentioned newspaper and member of the Society
• Popescu: same
• Voters, Citizen and Public

See also

• List of Romanian plays

References

• Tudor Vianu, Scriitori români, Vol. I-III, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1970-1971. OCLC 7431692