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• Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd (1979) is another Broadway hit that successfully combines farce with melodrama.

• Jonathan Swift’s satire ‘‘A Modest Proposal’’ (1729) suggests a ‘‘charitable’’ solution to the poverty and hunger in Ireland: babies should be bred and eaten.

• Joseph Kramm’s popular play The Shrike (1952) takes a serious look at the treatment of the mentally ill in America in the 1950s.

• George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s play You Can’t Take It with You (1938) earned rave reviews for its...

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