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Charles Dibdin (died 1814), English musician, dramatist, novelist, poet, actor and songwriter

An Old Score

An Old Score is an 1869 three-act comedy-drama written by English dramatist W. S. Gilbert based partly on his 1867 short story, Diamonds, and partly on episodes in the lives of William Dargan, an Irish engineer and railway contractor, and John Sadleir, a banker who committed suicide.

Antonio Mira de Amescua

Antonio Mira de Amescua (1578? – 1636?), Spanish dramatist, was born at Guadix (Granada) about 1578.

Antonio Salvador

Antonio Rodríguez Salvador (born 1960), poet, fiction writer, dramatist and essayist

Barnaby Bernard Lintot

John Gay and Nicholas Rowe, in particular, became clients of Lintott's, and Lintott published Pope's Works of 1717, Gay's Poems on Several Occasions in 1720, and Rowe's Works in 1728.

Baron Caryll of Durford

Baron Caryll of Durford (or Dunford) of Harting in West Sussex is a title in the Jacobite Peerage of England created by the dethroned King James II for John Caryll, poet, dramatist and diplomat, with apparently a special remainder to the issue male of his brothers.

Birthe Neumann

At the Royal Danish Theatre she has appeared in a number of productions, among them Marx and Coca Cola, Molière's The Learned Ladies, Henrik Hertz's Sparekassen (The Savings Bank), Jess Ørnsbo's Majonæse (Mayonnaise), Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and David Hare's A Breath of Life.

Boaden

James Boaden (1762–1839), English biographer, dramatist, and journalist

Chalupka

Ján Chalupka (1791–1871), Slovak dramatist, playwright, publicist

Charles Beckingham

In addition to these dramas Beckingham wrote a poem on the death of Rowe, the dramatist; a second entitled Christ's Sufferings, translated from the Latin of Rapin, and dedicated to the Archbishop of York; and other minor poems.

Claudio de la Torre

Claudio de la Torre (October 30, 1895 - January 10, 1973) was a Spanish novelist, poet, dramatist and film director.

Colégio Militar

Júlio Dantas (1876–1962), doctor, poet, journalist, politician, diplomat, and dramatist

Early Morning

Early Morning is a surrealist farce by the English dramatist Edward Bond.

Elizabeth Barry

The actor Thomas Betterton said that her acting gave "success to plays that would disgust the most patient reader", and the critic and playwright John Dennis described her as "that incomparable Actress changing like Nature which she represents, from Passion to Passion, from Extream to Extream, with piercing Force and with easy Grace".

Ernest Legouve

Ernest Legouvé, Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé, French dramatist

Gavrilo Princip

When he was in Belgrade in 1912 and 1913, preparing for his exams at the First Belgrade Gymnasium, Princip's sole friend was Momčilo Nastasijević, who grew up to become a prominent poet and dramatist.

Gotthold

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

Later the same year she appeared as Mrs Manningham in the first production of Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton.

Henrietta Davis

Henrietta Vinton Davis (1860–1941), American elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator

Henry Jayasena

Henry Jayasena (Sinhala:හෙන්රි ජයසේන) (6 July 1931 - 11 November 2009) born in Bendiyamulla, Gampaha is a Sri Lankan film actor and dramatist.

Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière

Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière (Le Loroux-Bottereau, 1610 - Paris, 4 June 1663) was a French physician, man of letters and dramatist.

Iphigénie en Tauride

The drama is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides which deals with stories concerning the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War.

Jill the Reckless

Other characters include wealthy clubman Freddie Rooke and dramatist Wally Mason, her childhood friends; her financially inept uncle Major Christopher Selby; her fiancé at the beginning of the book, the M.P Derek Underhill, and his domineering mother, Lady Underhill; Jill's unpleasant Long Island, N.Y. relatives, Elmer, Julia and Tibby Mariner; Drones Club member Algy Martyn, various chorus girls, composers and other theatrical types, and, of course, miscellaneous servants.

John Talbott Donoghue

It is a full-length nude sculpture of the Greek dramatist Sophocles playing a lyre while leading the chorus of victory after the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE.

Joint Stock Theatre Company

The Joint Stock Theatre Company was founded in London 1974 by David Hare, Max Stafford-Clark and David Aukin.

Jonny Halberg

Jonny Halberg (born 12 October 1962 in Jørstadmoen, Lillehammer) is a Norwegian author and dramatist, now living in Moss, Jeløya.

Julian, Count of Ceuta

The Jacobean playwright William Rowley recounts Julian's story in his play All's Lost by Lust (c. 1619).

Kalaimamani

They include actors Nayantara, Tamanna,Mrs.Sujatha Peer Mohamed ( Barathanatiyam Dancer) Anushka and Arya, Carnatic vocalist Gayathri Girish, Veena players Rajhesh Vaidhya and S.Srinivasan, dramatist Prasanna Ramaswamy, spiritual orators Mangaiyarkkarasi and S Sathyaseelan, and Tamil scholar Tamizhannal and Dindigul I. Leoni.

Laurence Irving

Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving (1871–1914), English dramatist and novelist and the son of actor Henry Irving

Leopold Feldmann

Leopold Feldmann (born Munich, Bavaria, 22 May 1802; died Vienna, 26 March 1882) was a German-Austrian dramatist.

Lucius Arruntius the Younger

Arruntius appears in a 17th Century play written by English dramatist Ben Jonson called Sejanus His Fall.

Luis Rivera

Luis Mariano Rivera (1906–2002), Venezuelan singer, composer, poet and dramatist

Max Emanuel Ainmiller

Maximilian was also mentor to many famous painters, including future son-in-law David Dalhoff Neal, and grandfather to dramatist Max Neal, and composer Heinrich Neal who was born a few month prior to his death.

Mortlake

Sir Henry Taylor, KCMG, the dramatic poet lived here the following century.

Otto Erich Hartleben

Otto Erich Hartleben (3 June 1864 – 11 February 1905) was a German poet and dramatist from Clausthal, known for his translation of Pierrot Lunaire.

Pecan Grove Press

Other notable poets include Vince Gotera, editor of North American Review; Marian Haddad; Edward Byrne, well known for his "One Poet's Notes" blog; Olga Samples Davis; Wendy Barker, winner of two Violet Crown awards from the Texas League of Writers; Gwyn McVay; award-winning poet, essayist and dramatist David Brendan Hopes; Cyra S. Dumitru; Colin Morton, award-winning Canadian poet; Bonnie Lyons; and Joel Peckham.

Planche

James Planché, a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms

Reinig

Christa Reinig (1926–2008), German poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and dramatist

Rostand

Jean Rostand (30 October 1894 - 4 September 1977) was a French biologist and philosopher, the son of the noted poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gérard, and brother of the biologist Maurice Rostand

Sukanta Chaudhuri

This was part of a project on cultural mobility carried out by the scholar Stephen Greenblatt and the off-Broadway dramatist Charles L. Mee.

Tatuagem

"Tatuagem" (English: Tattoo) is a poem written by the Brazilian singer, composer, dramatist and writer Chico Buarque de Holanda and the Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor Ruy Guerra, for the stageplay Calabar (1972–1973).

The Apollo of Bellac

The Apollo of Bellac (French title: L'Apollon de Bellac or L'Apollon de Marsac) is a comedic one-act play written in 1942 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

The Flight across the Ocean

The Flight across the Ocean (Der Ozeanflug) is a Lehrstück by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, inspired by We, Charles Lindbergh's 1927 account of his transatlantic flight.

The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book is also the name of a series of radio thrillers written by Robert Forrest and broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour Drama.

The Valiant Years

Scriptwriters included Victor Wolfson a dramatist and writer, Quentin Reynolds, William L. Shirer an American journalist, war correspondent and historian, and Richard Tregaskis.

The Witch of Edmonton

The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621.

Thomas Franklin

Thomas Francklin (1721–1784), English academic, clergyman, writer and dramatist

Timeline of Shakespeare criticism

Samuel Johnson, 1765 The Plays of William Shakespeare: "Shakespeare's adherence to general nature has exposed him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal. ... These are the petty cavils of petty minds."

Timothy Shelley

Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet of Castle Goring MA (Oxon.) (7 September 1753 – 24 April 1844) was the son of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring and the father of Romantic poet and dramatist Percy Bysshe Shelley.


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