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  2. Jean Racine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Charles H. Hoyt - Wikipedia

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    A Milk White Flag ad in Motion Picture News (1926). Hoyt was born in Concord, New Hampshire.He had a difficult childhood, as his mother died when he was ten years old. He graduated at the Boston Latin School and, after being engaged in the cattle business in Colorado for a time, took up newspaper work, first with the Advertiser in Saint Albans, Vermont, and later becoming the music and drama ...

  4. Eugène Ionesco - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Buried Child - Wikipedia

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    Hero-worships the images of her lost son; Tilden; their eldest son in his late 40s Lost son, he has no purpose, no direction in his life; Had sex with his mother [1] Is confused, ashamed, and embarrassed about the child and its death; Is bullied by the other characters; Brings crops into the house from the field in the backyard

  6. Edward Albee - Wikipedia

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    [38] His longtime partner, Jonathan Richard Thomas, a sculptor, died on May 2, 2005, from bladder cancer. They had been partners from 1971 until Thomas's death. Albee also had a relationship of several years with playwright Terrence McNally during the 1950s. [39] Albee died at his home in Montauk, New York on September 16, 2016, aged 88. [39 ...

  7. William Inge - Wikipedia

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    William Motter Inge (/ ˈ ɪ n dʒ /; [1] May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.

  8. D.W. Griffith stoked racism with 'Birth of a Nation.' A ... - AOL

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    "Unbroken Blossoms" at L.A.'s East West Players explores the complicated history of the film director's follow-up, including the hiring of Chinese consultants to help a white actor play a Chinese man.

  9. Ronald Gow - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Gow (1 November 1897 – 27 April 1993) was an English dramatist, best known for Love on the Dole (1934). Born in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire, the son of a bank manager, Gow attended Altrincham County High School. After training as a chemist, he returned to his old school as a teacher.