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In 2013, the Italian playwright Stefano Massini turned this exemplum into The Lehman Trilogy, an epic five-hour play that was adapted and condensed last year by the director Sam Mendes and playwright Ben Power for the National Theatre in London.
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Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
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Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
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“Exemplum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exemplum. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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exemplum
noun
ex·em·plum
ig-ˈzem-pləm 
plural exempla
-plə
: a story used to point out a moral or support an argument
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