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A pacifist, he was a conscientious objector during World War II, and served in the Non-Combatant Corps; for part of the time he cleaned London's sewers. [ 3 ] After the War, he wrote a comedy, A Phoenix Too Frequent , which was produced at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate , and revived at the Arts Theatre London, in 1946, starring Paul ...
Robertson was born in Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire on 9 January 1829. [1] He came from a long-established theatrical family, active on the English stage since the early 18th century, [2] and was the eldest son of William Shaftoe Robertson and his wife, Margharetta Elisabetta (née Marinus), a Danish-born actress.
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.
It is generally considered that Andronicus came from his Greek name and that Livius, a name originally local to Latium, was the gentilicium, the family name, of his patron . His career at Rome was launched from servitude and he became a freedman ( libertus ) by the grace of his master, one of the Livia gens .
Eugène Ionesco (French: [øʒɛn jɔnɛsko]; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: [e.uˈdʒen joˈnesku] ⓘ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century.
In 1999, Albee received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. [46] He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005); [ 40 ] the gold medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1980); as well as the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts (both in 1996). [ 47 ]
Jean-Baptiste Racine (/ r æ ˈ s iː n / rass-EEN, US also / r ə ˈ s iː n / rə-SEEN; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.
The school in Klara, Stockholm, whose harsh discipline haunted Strindberg in his adult life. Strindberg was born on 22 January 1849 in Stockholm, Sweden, the third surviving son of Carl Oscar Strindberg (a shipping agent) and Eleonora Ulrika Norling (a serving-maid). [21]