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China Zorrilla as Emily Dickinson, 1981. The Belle of Amherst is a one-woman play by William Luce.. Based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson from 1830 to 1886, and set in her Amherst, Massachusetts, home, the 1976 play makes use of her work, diaries, and letters to recollect her encounters with the significant people in her life – family, close friends, and acquaintances.
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers; Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), New England's first published poet; Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess; Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1654–1724), French ...
Crothers was born on December 12, 1870, in Bloomington, Illinois, to Dr. Eli Kirk Crothers and Dr. Marie Louise (de Pew) Crothers. [3] Crothers' mother, an independent-minded woman whose father had been friends with Abraham Lincoln, went to medical school at forty and became one of the first woman physicians in Illinois, encountering and eventually overcoming much opposition to her practice in ...
James Albery (1838–1889, England) Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890, Romania) Grace Alexander (1872–1951, United States) Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803, Italy) William Alfred (1922–1999, United States) Jay Presson Allen (1922–2006, United States) Jim Allen (1926–1999, England) Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg 1935, United States)
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Luís de Camões, one of the best-known poets of the 16th century. Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet; Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Welsh poet and fiction writer in Welsh; Cædmon (fl. 7th c.), earliest Northumbrian poet known by name; Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer in Gaelic
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.
Webster has received a reputation for being the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatist with the most unsparingly dark vision of human nature. Webster's tragedies present a horrific vision of mankind; in his poem "Whispers of Immortality," T. S. Eliot memorably says that Webster always "saw the skull beneath the skin". While Webster's drama was ...