Born around 524 or 525 B.C. in the city of Eleusis near Athens, the Greek dramatist Aeschylus is known as the first great tragedian. |
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The comic dramatist Aristophanes wrote an unpleasant play, The Clouds, about him, and he was attacked after his death. |
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We find ourselves in a world where God is improviser, storyteller, weaver, imaginer, dramatist. |
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Perhaps the dramatist was unwilling to repeat material recently enacted in the True Tragedy. |
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These title pages generally provide the title of the play, the name of the dramatist, and the printer's device and imprint. |
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The quadricentenary of the birth of the poet and dramatist Edmund Crowsely seems to be passing quite unremarked, even in his native Whitby. |
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By and large, he is a dramatist of deception and double-dealing, an architect of environments that entrap and extinguish their inhabitants. |
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Roman comic dramatist who wrote in the tradition of the New Comedy, popular in 4th-century Greece and exemplified by the work of Menander. |
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The volume will help Yeats scholars to get a more rounded view of his literary output by showing how important was his work as a dramatist. |
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The acclaimed writer and dramatist, who had a secret affair with the actress in the 1960s, has learned she bore him a love child. |
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She was an orthodox theologian, a reformer, a builder, a dramatist, a musician, an herbalist, and an abbess. |
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The book's adaptors were Spanish playwright Pablo Ley and English dramatist Allan Baker and the director was Josep Galindo of Spain. |
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As a dramatist, he's currently writing a musical based on the entire songbook. |
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He has said his encounters with anti-Semitism in his youth influenced him in becoming a dramatist. |
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The historical dramatist had worse to fear than the sneers of the literati. |
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He combines the skills of a master dramatist with a social conscience and a tremendous sense of how to engage young people in live theatre. |
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It's a play written by a native dramatist and starring two native actors, but it's not a native drama. |
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The German dramatist and theoretician Bertolt Brecht was wrong about many things, but not about this sort of problem. |
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Among those he turned down were the dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann and the German chancellor Hans Luther. |
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You could even argue that Flaubert's supple perfection as a novelist is matched by Ibsen's rigorous economy as a dramatist. |
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She was coached in elocution by an actor from the Comedie Francaise and the dramatist Crebillon. |
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The situation instinctively reminds one of the play An Enemy of the People by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. |
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In between, he had to contend with a Shavian academic who had come to regard the bearded, vegetarian dramatist as his personal property. |
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I am put in mind of that excellent account of hypocrisy provided by the famous French dramatist Molière in his play Tartuffe. |
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This is a dramatist whose art consists of little more than pulling a string of cliches from a cast of stereotypes in an utterly contrived setting. |
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A Czech actor, mime, dramatist and screen writer, impersonator of many theatre, film and television roles. |
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Middleton is the dramatist who links the medieval morality plays to Restoration foppery. |
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The collection includes material by and about Georg Kaiser, the leading dramatist of German expressionism. |
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The playwright Jon Fosse could avoid the curse of Henrik Ibsen to become a Norwegian dramatist Nobel laureate. |
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LaBute gives the proceedings an unsettling prejudice-exposing layer of dubiety because the revenant is a tricksy Iago-like wannabe dramatist. |
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The dramatist chooses those motives as fairly and as honestly as he can. |
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In this way we're involved in a dialogue with and against the dramatist himself. |
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Marc Ravenhill, English dramatist, enfant terrible of his generation, has written nearly a dozen plays with explosive ingredients. |
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Perhaps it is this contradiction that has allowed me to be a dramatist rather than an essayist. |
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The prolific American writer David Mamet has worked as a dramatist, essayist, screenwriter and filmmaker. |
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Only a natural dramatist could have written a scene as good as that. |
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Pygmalion was the first of three Shaw adaptations that he was to direct, and the first film on which the great dramatist himself worked as scriptwriter. |
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Shima Niavarani, dramatist and actor, wanted to see more active work to identify, seek out and support creative people. |
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In Prague, it was the opposition movement Civic Forum led by author and dramatist Vaclav Havel that spearheaded the Velvet Revolution. |
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He is internationally acknowledged as a great dramatist for his poetry, his many other literary works and his film scripts. |
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In 2005 he was declared dramatist of the year at the theatre festivals in Mülcheim, and then by the Theatre Today magazine. |
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Along with Heiner Müller, Botho Strauss is the most produced German dramatist in Europe. |
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Probably the most famous of these was the poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca. |
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In any case, the practices imputed to Shakespeare as an emergent dramatist were not in the least exceptional. |
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How much information should a dramatist withhold from an audience? |
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El perro del hortelano » The dog in the manger, a conventional adaptation of the famous play written by Lope de Vega, a great dramatist of the Spanish Golden Century. |
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Its fate was to be logrolled again by Ardrey, the American dramatist and Hollywood screenwriter. |
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Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker and civil rights activist. |
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In 1718, after the success of Oedipe, the first of his tragedies, he was acclaimed as the successor of the great classical dramatist Jean Racine and thenceforward adopted the name of Voltaire. |
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Every Royal Court dramatist was invited to contribute ever-changing material to a revue about Enoch Powell, who could, by coincidence, be seen every morning at Sloane Square station going to work. |
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The Roman Stoic philosopher, essayist, celebrity and dramatist Seneca was tutor, speech-writer and adviser to the emperor Nero, and he was also, not coincidentally, one of the very richest people of his age. |
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But when you and the production get it right – when your words are sung and your scenes and characters engage an audience and move them to tears and laughter – it's the most exhilarating experience a dramatist can enjoy. |
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Internationally renowned dramatist Simon Stephens, originally from Stockport, selected and mentored the emerging writers including Liverpool playwright Kellie Smith. |
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Griffith is a young dramatist and talented writer who recently graduated from the Playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada in Moncton. |
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No dramatist of European stature had emerged from the theatre. The artists were not giants but giantlings. |
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It has had little impact on the Robin Hood tradition but needs mention as the work of a major dramatist. |
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Oberon, in his view, is the interior dramatist of the play, orchestrating events. |
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Kyd told authorities the writings found in his possession belonged to Christopher Marlowe, a fellow dramatist and former roommate. |
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Behn's novels show the influence of tragedy and her experiences as a dramatist. |
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Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. |
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John Mortimer made his radio debut as a dramatist in 1955, with his adaptation of his own novel Like Men Betrayed for the BBC Light Programme. |
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By the later 1890s Shaw's political activities lessened as he concentrated on making his name as a dramatist. |
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Bernard Dukore notes that he was successful as a dramatist in America ten years before achieving comparable success in Britain. |
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Gilbert, Oscar Wilde became the leading poet and dramatist of the late Victorian period. |
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He was a close friend of the dramatist Richard Cumberland, of Mrs Siddons, and of John Henderson the actor. |
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After graduation she became a journalist and worked briefly as a dramatist. |
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Therefore, parallels with Longinus's and Vossius's prescripts for the inspired dramatist can once again be detected. |
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They looked back to Swedish playwright August Strindberg and German actor and dramatist Frank Wedekind as precursors of their dramaturgical experiments. |
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The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn. |
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The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer from Santiniketan, now in West Bengal, India, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate. |
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Burton admired and was inspired by the actor and dramatist Emlyn Williams. |
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In the early years of the 18th century, the Irish dramatist George Farquhar resided in the town while acting as a recruiting officer for the Army. |
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