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).....
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