# Which of these titles for a play do you like the most?

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**Created:** [December 1, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-titles-for-a-play-do-you-like-the-most/519554 "2009-12-01T03:28:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-titles-for-a-play-do-you-like-the-most/519554/21 "2009-12-02T00:22:30Z")

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> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> IThe others sound like, well, titles to plays. Plays that are _trying to make a point_. Gahhh…

To be honest I lean towards Beautiful View myself- brings in aesthetics for Wilde and Beauvoir for Davis. Many plays have titles that have little or nothing to do with the play’s action (_The Crucible_ could as easily be about a medieval pharmacist or a 1930s iron worker, or _Fiddler on the Roof_ about Appalachian flood victims) but I think there should be some connection, and some (especially _La Bella_) I was just curious how others liked it since they’re more objective.

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