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Excalibur
Excalibur , in Arthurian legend , sword given to King Arthur by the Lady of the Lake . At Arthur's death Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the lake; a hand rose from the water, caught the sword, and disappeared. Another sword, sometimes mistakenly identified with Excalibur, was drawn from a stone ... Read more
Round Table
Round Table in Arthurian legend , the table at which King Arthur and his knights held court. It was allegedly fashioned at the behest of Arthur to prevent quarrels among the knights over precedence. According to one version it was given to Arthur as a wedding gift by his father-in-law. A round tab... Read more
Arthur MacArthur
Arthur MacArthur 1845-1912, American army officer, b. Springfield, Mass.; father of Douglas MacArthur . Raised in Wisconsin, he served with the 24th Wisconsin Volunteers in the Civil War and fought in many Western campaigns and in the Chattanooga campaign of 1863. He received the Medal of Honor fo... Read more
Arthur I
Arthur I 1187-1203?, duke of Brittany (1196-1203?), son of Geoffrey, fourth son of Henry II of England and Constance, heiress of Brittany. Arthur, a posthumous child, was proclaimed duke in 1196, and an invasion by his uncle King Richard I of England was repulsed with French aid. Subsequently, Arth... Read more
Arthur Golding
Arthur Golding c.1536-c.1605, English translator. He translated many Latin classics, including Caesar's Gallic War and Ovid's Metamorphoses. A Calvinist, Golding tried to infuse the Metamorphoses with a stern moral tone. He also translated noted French works. ... Read more
Sir Arthur Lewis
Sir Arthur Lewis (Sir William Arthur Lewis), 1915-91, British economist, b. St. Lucia. A graduate (1940) of the London School of Economics, he was later a professor of economics at the Univ. of Manchester (1948-58) and at Princeton Univ. (1963-83). A specialist in the economic theory of developing ... Read more
Arthur, King
Arthur, King. The romantic figure of King Arthur has probably some historical basis. He was probably a chieftain or general (dux bellorum) in the 5th or 6th cent. The Annales Cambriae place the battle of Mount Badon, ‘in which Arthur carried the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ on his shoulder... Read more
Camelot
Camelot , in Arthurian legend , the seat of King Arthur's court. The origin of the name is unknown. It has been variously located at Cadbury Camp, Somerset; Winchester; Camelford; and Caerleon. ... Read more
Port Arthur
Port Arthur city (1990 pop. 58,724), Jefferson co., SE Tex., on Sabine Lake; inc. 1898. A deepwater port of entry on the Sabine-Neches Canal, it is an extensive oil port, with many large refineries, chemical plants, and oil rigs and ships. There is natural-gas processing, printing and publishing, a... Read more
Arthur Christopher Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson 1862-1925, English author; eldest son of Archbishop Benson . He was master at Eton (1885-1903) and at Magdalene College, Cambridge (1915-25). His works include poetry; novels; essays, notably From a College Window (1902); critical studies; and biographies of his father ... Read more

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Adamov, Arthur
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Adamov, Arthur (1908–70), Russian-born...produced by Planchon at Lyons in 1957, Adamov moved towards the epic theatre of Brecht...Politique des restes (1963). Two of Adamov's later works were inspired by Gorky...
Absurd, Theatre of the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...by the author, Waiting for Godot , 1954). Amongst the dramatists associated with the Theatre of the Absurd are Arthur Adamov (1908–70), Albee , Beckett, Camus , Jean Genet (1910–86), Eugène Ionesco...

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Armenians in Books
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 10/1/1994; ; 617 words ; ...reference works in which Arthur Adamov (1908-1970) is given...Mordden describes Adamov as "the only major absurdist...forms." He goes on: "Adamov was virtually nationless...Stephen Spender and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. In his...
Obituary: Professor Martin Esslin
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/27/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov and those who followed them in Britain...to writers. The French playwright Adamov frequently appealed to him for small...BBC and the appeals never arrived, Adamov, whose entire life was chaotic...
Obituary: Marthe Robert
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/15/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Helped by her close friend the dramatist of the absurd, Arthur Adamov, with whom she translated and adapted for the stage...release of Antonin Artaud from the madhouse. She and Adamov are among a host of famous writers who contributed to...
Obituary: Eugene Ionesco
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/29/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...became linked together as the creators of a new drama, Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, of which Ionesco...looking for newsworthy plays that were cheap to do. Adamov was really a political playwright and soon moved more...
Lost in France: Paris in the Sixties: Peter Lennon, taking his chances as a foreign correspondent, gatecrashes a private view where he starts chatting to a little balding man with a wrinkly face and a taste for champagne. Only months later does the young reporter discover that his new acquaintance is the star of the avant-garde
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/21/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...association it can be troublesome. This was the Paris of the 'new wave' in cinema, the 'new novel'; Ionesco and Arthur Adamov were at the height of their careers; Jacques Tati had not yet begun to fade, Sartre and de Beauvoir were still considerable...
Enigmatic genius
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/19/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...the most modest succes d'estime or failed catastrophically. A poet? Yes, according to the Absurdist playwright Arthur Adamov, one of the three great French poets of the century with Apollinaire and Eluard. But a very strange poet, who was...
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/16/1994; 671 words ; ...Brancusi, sculptor, 1957; William Henry Beveridge, first Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, social security pioneer, 1963; Arthur Adamov, playwright, 1970; Thomas Edmund Dewey, politician, 1971; Leonide Massine, choreographer, 1979; Jean-Omer...
Malay dramas' loss a boon to English theatre
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 3/15/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...in this country. "Absurd theatre" is a label associated with dramatists like Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Arthur Adamov. The avantgarde of the theatre at the time had a tremendous influence on theatre movements all over the world. Nordin...
Theatre: The return of shockheaded theatre Decades before Sarah Kane and Irvine Welsh, Antonin Artaud created the Theatre of Cruelty. Has the time come for a revival?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/21/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...widely acknowledged as having influenced some of the greats of the postwar era: Jean Genet, Jean-Louis Barrault, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal and Peter Brook among them. But whereas Brook partly made his name by staging a Theatre of Cruelty...
Valley Song.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...the nation's sea change recorded in Valley Song moves the spectator/reader to happy tears. In 1969 I interviewed Arthur Adamov apropos of his Social Theater (politically involved works from about the time of the evenements de Mai) plays. So...