O scrisoare pierdută (Romanian for "A Lost Letter") is a play by Ion Luca Caragiale. It premiered in 1884, and arguably represents the high point of his career.Vianu, Vol. II, p. 180

It was adapted into a 1953 film A Lost Letter.

It was first performed in English in 2019 at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London. The translation is available here: https://www.pdf2html5.com/pdfupload/server/php/uploads/admin_oxffauqbza/lost-letter-2019/complete.php

Characters Nae Cațavencu: lawyer, manager and owner of the „Răcnetul Carpaților” (The Roar of the Carpathians) newspaper, president and founder of the Enciclopedic- Cooperative Society „Aurora Economică Română” (the Romanian Economical Aurora), scoundrel greedy for power Ștefan Tipătescu: the prefect of the county, celibate, arrogant and abusive treats his county like his own estate, Zoe Trahanache's lover Zaharia Trahanache: President of the Permanent Committee, of the Electoral Committee, of the School Committee, of the Agricultural Committee and of other Committees, aware of his wife's affair, but which he accepts Zoe Trahanache: Trahanache wife, the coquettish type, intelligent, authoritative, ambitious, Ștefan Tipătescu's lover Ghiță Pristanda: the town's policeman, the all-round good man of prefect Ștefan Tipătescu, who often uses him as a kind of personal servant Cetățeanul turmentat: character of the comedy that hides one of the most subtle dramaturgical tricks of the brilliant Caragiale – in a society that has lost the cult for authentic human values, honesty could appear as a vice and would have disturbed the intrinsic order of the play, so that the playwright was forced to create a vicious person in order to endow him with certain qualities Agamemnon (Agamiță) Dandanache: an old warrior from the 1848 Revolution, "stupider than Farfuridi and more scoundrel than Cațavencu" Tache Farfuridi: lawyer, member of the committees above mentioned, fanfaron and demagogue Iordache Brânzovenescu: member of Trahanache's political team forms, together with Farfuridi, a comic couple, both by behavior and by their names with culinary resonances

See also List of Romanian plays

Notes

References Tudor Vianu, Scriitori români, Vol. I–III, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1970–1971