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"One Child" is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her second Christmas album/thirteenth studio album, Merry Christmas II You (2010). It was written and produced by Carey in collaboration with Broadway composer Marc Shaiman. Backed by a children's choir, the lyrics are about the birth of Jesus.
Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. Those with a one-word stage name are listed in a separate article. In many cases, performers have legally changed their name to their stage name. [1] Note: Many cultures have their own naming customs and systems, some rather intricate.
This is a list of notable people best known by a stage name consisting of a single word.. This list does not include - . famous people who are commonly referred to only by their first name (e.g. Adele, Beyoncé, Elvis, Madonna).
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.
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor.He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
They developed from the 10th to the 16th century, reaching the height of their popularity in the 15th century before being rendered obsolete by the rise of professional theatre. The name derives from mystery used in its sense of miracle, [2] but an occasionally quoted derivation is from misterium, meaning craft, a play performed by the craft ...
The term is used to describe the multiple identifications one may adopt in an attempt to emphasize the expression of one's own individualism. [ citation needed ] An individuality is never obtained, as this process of establishing dramatis personae creates a postmodern persona which 'wears many hats', each different hat worn for a different ...