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Errol Hill Errol Hill
Errol Hill 1921– Educator, actor, author, playwright Raised on Scripture and Hymns Attended Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Entered Academia Moved to Playwriting Selected works Sources For decades, beginning as early as the 1940s, Errol Hill was the leading voice for the... Read more
Jean Racine (French playwright) Jean Racine (French playwright)
Jean Toomer 1894– Read more
Tom Stoppard Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard 1937-, English playwright, b. Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), as Tomas Straussler. During his childhood he and his family moved to Singapore, later (1946) settling in Bristol, England, where he became a journalist. In 1960 he moved to London, where he became a... Read more
Zeami Motokiyo Zeami Motokiyo
Zeami Motokiyo or Kanze Motokiyo, c.1363-c.1443, Japanese actor, playwright, and drama theorist. Son of the itinerant actor Kanami, at the age of eleven Zeami attracted the attention of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who became his first major patron. Later Zeami's fortunes fluctuated with... Read more
James Elroy Flecker James Elroy Flecker
James Elroy Flecker 1884-1915, English poet and playwright. From 1910-13 he served in the diplomatic corps. A preoccupation with the exotic is revealed in his verse, particularly in The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913). His two plays, Hassan (pub. 1922) and Don Juan (pub. 1925), were... Read more
Eric Bentley Eric Bentley
Eric Bentley 1916-, American critic, editor, and translator, b. Bolton, England, grad. Oxford, 1938, Ph.D. Yale, 1941. A highly regarded and rigorously intellectual critic, particularly of the drama, Bentley is the author of such works as A Century of Hero-Worship (1944), The Playwright as... Read more
Thomas Godfrey Thomas Godfrey
Thomas Godfrey 1736-63, American poet and playwright, b. Philadelphia. The son of Thomas Godfrey, who invented the quadrant, he became apprenticed to a watchmaker after his father's early death. Godfrey is remembered as the author of The Prince of Parthia (1767), a blank verse tragedy reminiscent... Read more
William Whitehead William Whitehead
William Whitehead 1715-85, English poet and playwright. He wrote several plays based on ancient Greek models, including Creusa, Queen of Athens (1754). Whitehead was appointed poet laureate in 1757. Although his light verse had been admired, the more grandiose works that he was required to write... Read more
Arthur Laurents Arthur Laurents
Laurents, Arthur (b. 1918), playwright and director. He was born in Brooklyn and educated at Cornell before his first play, Home of the Brave (1945), was praised by many critics, but failed commercially. His only play to find major success was one of his lightest, The Time of the Cuckoo (1952).... Read more
Marina Tsvetaeva Marina Tsvetaeva
TSVETAEVA, MARINA IVANOVNA (1892–1941), twentieth–century poet, playwright, translator, and essayist. Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most original and complex poets of the twentieth century, led a life of fierce passion, material hardship, and ostracism. Her "poetry of whirling and... Read more

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