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Charles L. Mee is an
American playwright and
author. He was born in
Barrington, Illinois in
1938. He was stricken with
polio in
1953, which he details in his
1999 memoir A Nearly Normal Life. His plays include:
The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Full Circle, The Trojan Women: A Love Story, Snow in June, True Love, bobrauschenbergamerica,
A Perfect Wedding,
Viena Lusthaus,
Orestes 2.0,
The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador,
Fetes de la Nuit,
Summertime,
Wintertime, "Agamemnon 2.0", "Chiang Kai Shek" and "First Love". He is also an accomplished historian, having written about the
Potsdam Conference and the Second World War. All of his plays are available on his
website with an invitation to other artists to use them as
copyright-free texts as the bases for other works of art.
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Charles Mee's website
