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Cricket and Literature - Literary connections of the noble game

Errol John and Moon on a Rainbow Shawl

December 20, 2021

Errol John, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Cricket and the Caribbean - by Arunabha Sengupta

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In Drama Tags Arunabha Sengupta, Errol John, Black Literature, Caribbean Literature
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William Shakespeare: Nature might stand up and say this was a man

April 22, 2020

On the birth anniversary of the Bard of Avon, Arunabha Sengupta recalls William Shakespeare the cricketer

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In Drama Tags William Shakespeare, Arunabha Sengupta, Julius Caesar
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Oscar Wilde's Cricketing Connections

January 19, 2015

Born October 16, 1854, Oscar Wilde never exchanged his pen for the willow. However, Arunabha Sengupta traces some connections of the great writer with cricket, not all of them very flattering for either the man or the game.

 

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In Drama, Serious Fiction Tags Oscar Wilde
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Samuel Beckett - The only First-Class cricketer to win Nobel Prize for Literature

January 19, 2015

Samuel Beckett, born April 13, 1906, is the only Nobel Prize winning author to have played First-class cricket.Arunabha Sengupta looks at his short cricketing career with a new theory about Beckett’s seminal work ‘Waiting for Godot’. To him, the play is nothing but a metaphor of cricket.

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In Drama Tags Samuel Beckett
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