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Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
Elizabeth Meriwether

Meaning of "Isherwood" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ISHERWOOD

Isherwood  [ˈɪshəˌwʊd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ISHERWOOD

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Isherwood is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ISHERWOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Isherwood in the English dictionary

The definition of Isherwood in the dictionary is Christopher, full name Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood. 1904–86, US novelist and dramatist, born in England. His works include the novel Goodbye to Berlin and three verse plays written in collaboration with W.H. Auden.


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harewood
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WORDS THAT END LIKE ISHERWOOD

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Isherwood

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Famous quotes and sentences with the word Isherwood.
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Elizabeth Meriwether
Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ISHERWOOD»

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A Single Man: A Novel
When Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity.
Christopher Isherwood, 2013
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The Berlin Stories
A two-in-one volume containing the works The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin finds the characters of Sally Bowles, Fräulein Schroeder, and the doomed Landauers caught up by the nightlife, danger, and mystique of 1931 Berlin.
Christopher Isherwood, 2008
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Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood was an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement.
Peter Parker, 2005
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Goodbye to Berlin
Goodbye to Berlin is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and “divinely decadent”Sally Bowles; plump Frau?lein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Bu?steto relieve her heart palpitations; Peter and Otto, a gay couple ...
Christopher Isherwood, 2012
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Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years
A unique biography of two literary giants and the city that was to change their lives.
Norman Page, 2000
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Mr Norris Changes Trains
He also sells his friends. Like its companion novel, Goodbye to Berlin, Mr Norris Changes Trains offers unforgettable characters struggling in the vortex as the Nazis rise to power.
Christopher Isherwood, 2013
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Prater Violet
Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund Wilson An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher ...
Christopher Isherwood, 2012
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Ramakrishna And His Disciples
Excerpt: This is the story of a phenomenon.
Christopher Isherwood, 2001
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Kathleen And Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to ...
"Isherwood's everyday correspondence, written in extraordinary times, reveals a complex yet wholly recognizable and very close bond between mother and son.
Christopher Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood, Lisa Colletta, 2005
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The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of ...
The volume, the first of its kind on Isherwood, offers a fresh, in-depth view of the author, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence."--BOOK JACKET.
James J. Berg, Chris Freeman, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ISHERWOOD»

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Morecambe woman accused of using seven-year-old girl for …
... last year and May this year. Prosecutor Malcolm Isherwood said: “The case involves the taking and making of indecent images of children. «Lancaster Today, Jul 15»
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Dishwasher, part of Capital Fringe - DC Theatre Scene
I couldn't find my copy of A Meeting by the River, Christopher Isherwood's wonderful epistolary novel that might have been cool to give him. «DC Theatre Scene, Jul 15»
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Oldcastle parties on in "Cabaret" - The Manchester Journal
"Cabaret" (book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, music by John Kander, based on works by John Van Druten and Christopher Isherwood), ... «The Manchester Journal, Jul 15»
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Review: 'Amazing Grace,' the Story of a Slave Trader's Moral …
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD JULY 16, 2015. Inside. Supported By. Photo. Amazing Grace A slave auction from this new musical about the human trafficker ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Theater Listings for July 17-23
(Charles Isherwood). 'Cymbeline' (previews start on Thursday; opens on Aug. 10) Fear no more the heat o' the sun. It'll be dusk by the time the ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Region's police go back to basics in war on drugs
Darling Downs District Inspector Dave Isherwood said that by collaborating with New South Wales police and being wary of suspicious ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, Jul 15»
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Spender's last take.
His first collection, Twenty Poems, in 1930 drew wide attention, but he is better remembered as the friend of Christopher Isherwood in Berlin in ... «The Fortnightly Review, Jul 15»
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Kingsclere A hold on to lead in men's tennis league
Andover B lead Division Two after a 5-3 win over Aldermaston A, with Martin Isherwood/Mike Prince winning all their sets. Mark Hammond/Del ... «Basingstoke Gazette, Jul 15»
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My Old House
Henry made many trips to Berlin where he found a thriving gay subculture. This was the Germany depicted in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin ... «ChicagoNow, Jul 15»
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Review: Marga Gomez's 'Pound' Mocks Depictions of Lesbians on Film
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD JULY 14, 2015. Inside. Supported By. Photo. Marga Gomez in "Pound." Credit Ian Douglas for The New York Times. Advertisement. «New York Times, Jul 15»

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