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6 | [[PunBasedTitle Pun-Based Titles]] in theatre. |
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9 | * The Chicago-based improv comedy troupe Creator/TheSecondCity was fond of giving their shows titles such as "We Made A Mesopotamia, Now You Clean It Up". |
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13 | * [[GetTheeToANunnery In Shakespeare's day]], "nothing" and "noting" were pronounced identically. The Hero/Claudio plot in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' is in large part about the importance of reputation (i.e., of how you are "noted".) |
14 | ** Of course, "nothing" also had [[DoubleEntendre another meaning]]... |
15 | * Creator/OscarWilde's ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'', in which people are lying about the identity and it is important to some of them that they find a certain person called, well, take a guess... |
16 | ** Several translations supply {{Woolseyism}}s of the title based on similar adjectives that are also men's first names, such as French ''L'importance d'être Constant'', Catalan ''La importància de ser Frank'', and German ''Ernst sein ist alles''. |
17 | * ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'', a pun on "[[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?]]" |
18 | * ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'': This the case for several of the musical's songs: "More Than Jest Friends" (jester + more than just friends), "Hisstorically Inaccurate" (a snake's hiss + historically inaccurate), "The Dorne Identity" (Dorne + ''Film/TheBourneIdentity''), "Shae No To This" (Shae + "Say No To This"), "A H(e)art Inflamed", "Stark to Finish" (Stark + start to finish) and "Congratshaelations" (Shae + "Congratulations"). |
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