The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (play)
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the-amazing-dr-clitterhouse-play-253-13791073
title:
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (play)
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1936 thriller play by the British writer Barré Lyndon. The lead character's name is a play on the term for the female sexual organ the clitoris - a name characterised by the "yearning, untrammelled nature" of Clitterhouse himself; an extremely daring pun for 1936, yet seemingly anticipated by Lyndon to escape the notice of the contemporary censor. Lyndon wrote, "My view was that he was no more likely to locate the pun in my title as to locate the source of it on
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encyclopedia
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1936 play
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Dr._Clitterhouse_(play)
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2024-04-24T18:54:34Z
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