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2 unusual facts about The Jeweler's Shop


Gli Asolani

His 3-act play The Jeweler's Shop also employs a trio of couples reversing the dramatic order, setting theamore lovers first with the amare lovers second, concluding with a couple from the next generation, a plot twist that provides the experiential material that helps resolve their stand-off of positive vs negative fatalism allowing them to cross the threshold of hope.

The Jeweler's Shop

However, the stranger reminds her of the Parable of the Ten Virgins and tells her to keep her lamp burning for the bridegroom.


Alice's Shop

It was formerly frequented in Victorian times by Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, who used to buy sweets there.

Charnwood, Australian Capital Territory

The shopping centre is well known as the location of the Greater Indian International Restaurant, Canberra Martial Arts Academy, Woolworths, McDonalds, Ginninderra Labor Club, Charcoal Chicken take-away, Charnwood Chemist, Bernie's at the Bay Fish and Chip shop, Charnwood Newsagency, EBM Computers, Prime Cut Butchers, and the Asian Delights Bakery.

Churchill, Victoria

The Churchill Newsagency opened in 1967 and was run by Ian and Winifred Jones who had previously run the Yinnar General Store.

La bottega dell'orefice

La bottega dell'orefice is a 1989 film based on The Jeweler's Shop, a play written by Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) and scripted by Jeff Andrus, starring Burt Lancaster and directed by Michael Anderson.

St Aldate's, Oxford

Opposite Christ Church is Alice's Shop, formerly frequented by Alice Liddell, and the model for the Sheep Shop in the "Wool and Water" chapter in Through the Looking-Glass.


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