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- – April 29, 1707) was an Irish dramatist. He is noted for his contributions ... between the vocations of soldier and dramatist. It was also at about this ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 15:46, 20 May 2024
- Seán O'Casey (March 30, 1880 – September 18, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed nationalist and socialist, ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- The profession of dramatist was challenging and far from lucrative. Halliday, p. 374-5. Entries in Philip Henslowe's Diary show that in the ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- Thomas Kyd (1558 – 1594) was an English dramatist who gained great popularity in his own day but faded into almost complete obscurity after ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (January 15, 1791 – January 21, 1872) was an Austrian dramatist whose tragedies were belatedly recognized as some ...15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
- John Millington Synge (April 16, 1871 – March 24, 1909) was an Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was a key ...12 KB (2,002 words) - 02:59, 2 May 2024
- great-grandson was Richard Cumberland, the dramatist. The care of his posthumous publications devolved upon his domestic chaplain and son-in-law ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- 9, 1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the founders and principle members of the ...7 KB (980 words) - 19:56, 27 April 2020
- Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 – November 1, 1907) was a French dramatist, novelist, and humorist. Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- William Wycherley (c. 1640 – January 1, 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration era. He was born in England, and lived and traveled ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
- ) was a Russian poet, novelist and dramatist. Not as famous internationally as his distant relative, Leo Tolstoy he was nevertheless a writer ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- Baker in his renowned 47 Workshop. The aspiring dramatist's first play at Harvard was The Mountains, a folk play about North Carolina. He received ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 – November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, and short story writer. He ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 15:02, 26 October 2022
- and came from an earlier production by the dramatist Edward Knoblock's 1911 production of the same name. Borodin's music continues to inspire ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- Benjamin Jonson (c. June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet, and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- Karl Georg Büchner (October 17, 1813 – February 19, 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- If Sophocles was the dramatist whose primary theme was fate, Aeschylus was dramatist who examined the relation of the gods to the lives of mortal ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- 1739 he went to London to seek his fortune as a dramatist, taking with him his spectacularly bad play The Regicide. Although unsuccessful, he obtained ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
