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Michael Morton was born in London in 1864, and spent most of his childhood in the United States. [1] His sister was the playwright Martha Morton. [2] He married Florence Mainwaring-Dunstan, and they had one son. [1] Morton died at his home in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey on 11 January 1931. [1]
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A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets.
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Edward Albee was born in 1928. His biological father left his mother, Louise Harvey, and he was placed for adoption two weeks later and taken to Larchmont, New York, where he grew up. [2]
M. George Macfarren; Jonathan Maitland; Clare Tree Major; Morgan Lloyd Malcolm; J. Hartley Manners; Marcus Markou; Stephen May (novelist) Deborah McAndrew; Kenneth McLeish
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
Millar was the son of a professional actress, Dorothy Dacre-Hill. Prior to becoming a full-time dramatist and then a speechwriter, he acted in a number of West End productions during and after World War II, in the company of luminaries as Ivor Novello, Alastair Sim and John Gielgud. [6]