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Books on: british playwright

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British Playwrights, 1880-1956: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Book by William W. Demastes, Katherine E. Kelly; Greenwood Press, 1996

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Dramatists, English--19th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Dramatists, English--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, English Drama--19th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--19th Century--Dictionaries, English Drama--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--20th Century--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...British Farce: A Selective Study of British Farce from Pinero to the Present...Christian Tradition in Modern British Verse Drama: The Poetics of Sacramental...Russell. The Profession of the Playwright: British Theatre , 1800- 1900. Cambridge...
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Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights

Book by Michael Patterson; Cambridge University Press, 2003

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English Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Political Plays, English--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Theater--Political Aspects--Great Britain--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...14) 2. John Bull, New British Political Dramatists: Howard...Richard Boon, Brenton: The Playwright, London: Methuen, 1991...20 9. Boon, Brenton: The Playwright, 54-5; see also 317...quoted in Boon, Brenton: The Playwright, I 1 5 I I I. Petrol bombs...
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Playwright Versus Director: Authorial Intentions and Performance Interpretations

Book by Jeane Luere, Sidney Berger; Greenwood Press, 1994

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Drama, Playwriting, Theater--Production And Direction

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...THREE Tiers of Director/Playwright Interchange: Five Case Studies...definitive view of what a playwright does and what a director...challenges to the "tyranny" of playwrights, quoting Antonin Artauds...key to why the director/playwright team succeeded or failed...producing high-level drama. British playwright Caryl Churchill...
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The Dramatic Art of David Storey: The Journey of a Playwright

Book by Herbert Liebman; Greenwood Press, 1996

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Drama, Storey, David--1933---Criticism And Interpretation

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...Hutchings in his commentary on the playwright The Plays 67-69 , as well as...as a late twentieth-century British playwright. Although he lacks the unrelenting...Englands preeminent working-class playwright, and he deserves recognition...
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A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights

Book by John L. Digaetani; Greenwood Press, 1991

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American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Drama, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Interviews, Dramatists, English--20th Century--Interviews, English Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Playwriting, Postmodernism (Literature), Theater--History--20th Century

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ALAN AYCKBOURN The contemporary British playwright Alan Ayckbourn has had significant success on both the British and American stages. Most of his theatrical talents were developed because of his mentor, Stephen Joseph, who first encouraged him...

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Journal Articles on: british playwright

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Michael Patterson. Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights

Journal article by Craig N. Owens; Comparative Drama, Vol. 39, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights. by Craig N. Owens...Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights. Cambridge...selecting the plays and playwrights for description and...and such more widely British playwrights as the second...
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Gabrielle Griffin. Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain

Journal article by Sara Freeman; Comparative Drama, Vol. 39, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain. by Sara Freeman...Cambridge Companion to Modern British Male Playwrights?), Gabrielle...under-recorded aspect of the British theatrical scene. Griffins...subjects only insofar as all British people are postcolonial subjects...
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"Popular" Admired. Well-liked. Trendy. in Style. All the Rage. Popular Playwrights. Popular Performers. Popular Entertainment. Popular Culture

Journal article by Heather S. Nathans, Robert Vorlicky; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 18, 2006

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Dramatists, Miller, Arthur (Playwright), Personal profiles, Popular culture, Theater criticism

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...in Style. All the Rage. Popular Playwrights. Popular Performers. Popular Entertainment...Miller was one of Americas most produced playwrights during his astonishingly prolific lifetime...nineteenth-century Americans, a troupe of British-born brothers were captivating adoring...
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Performing the West Indies: Comedy, Feeling, and British Identity

Journal article by Jean Marsden; Comparative Drama, Vol. 42, 2008

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Comedies (Plays)--Criticism and interpretation, Cumberland, Richard (English playwright)--Criticism and interpretation, Cumberland, Richard (English playwright)--Works, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, National identity--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works, The West Indian (Play)--Criticism and interpretation

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...Feeling, and British Identity. by...connection between playwright and audience...exist when the playwrights subject is seemingly...is it for the playwright to create a connection...expression of British national character...Restoration comic playwrights "spread infection...shared by the playwright and the audience...of society, playwrights such as Cumberland...performing a British identity mediated...
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'Our Theatrical Attempts in This Distant Quarter': The British Stage in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta

Journal article by Derek Forbes; Theatre Notebook, Vol. 61, 2007

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Dramatists--Influence, Dramatists--Works, Garrick, David--Influence, Garrick, David--Works, India--History, India--Social aspects, Playwrights--Influence, Playwrights--Works, Theater--Social aspects, United Kingdom--History, United Kingdom--Social aspects

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...Attempts in This Distant Quarter: The British Stage in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta...preserved letters home and memoirs of British officials and visitors, including the...sterling seems a lot for the time, even for British India. Further letters show Sophie going...

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Magazine Articles on: british playwright

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The outside Man: His Stock Is Fast Rising, but Anthony Neilson Chafes at the Embrace of the Mainstream. British Theatre Should Be More Punky in Spirit, the Playwright Tells Brian Logan

Magazine article by Brian Logan; New Statesman, Vol. 136, December 10, 2007

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God in Ruins (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews

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...Embrace of the Mainstream. British Theatre Should Be More Punky...what is right and wrong with British theatre. While one might...he is the most exciting playwright in Britain. Its no longer...vaudeville to do so. (Few other playwrights invoke Bruce Forsyth in interview...invites sympathy for the single British bloke: "Yes, Kylie Minogue...
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Jimmy's Blob: The Successful Broadway Run of the Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall's Drama Set in a North-East Mining Community, Has Introduced US Audiences to a Remarkable Chapter in British Working-Class Life

Magazine article by Robert Colls; History Today, Vol. 61, February 2011

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Broadway theater--Forecasts and trends, Dramatists--Works, Hall, Lee (British playwright)--Works, Playwrights--Works, Proletariat--Portrayals, The Pitmen Painters (Play)--Authorship, Working class in television--Portrayals, Working class--Portrayals

Collections: History, Entire Library

...US Audiences to a Remarkable Chapter in British Working-Class Life. by Robert Colls...of working-class adult education. A British school of working-class painters is...impotent, the play moves to crisis. For British social history will let you accuse miners...
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Un-American Beauties: With Broadway Theatres Afraid to Mention Child-Killers, Politics, Aids or 9/11, Radical Playwrights from the US Are Flocking to Soho, Battersea and Edinburgh

Magazine article by Emma John; New Statesman, Vol. 135, August 7, 2006

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Drama--Political aspects, Dramatists--Works, Plays--Political aspects, Playwrights--Works, United States--Cultural policy, United States--Political aspects

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...wonder how many other American playwrights just stop." Shinn, who...students to send their work to British theatres. "But I often...Because not every American playwright is going to get their work...middleman and going straight to British practitioners. And although...system itself which, the playwrights argue, is causing the problem...
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Chronicle of an Award Ungiven: The Wasserstein Prize for Young Female Playwrights Caused a Stir by Not Naming a 2010 Winner. What Happened, and What's Next?

Magazine article by Isaac Butler; American Theatre, Vol. 28, January 2011

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Awards (Prizes)--Demonstrations and protests, Dramatists--Demonstrations and protests, Playwrights--Demonstrations and protests

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...for Young Female Playwrights Caused a Stir by...IN 2008, CHICAGO PLAYWRIGHT LAURA JACQMIN checked...state secrets to the British crown, King Charles...became a popular playwright. The production...production money, todays playwrights earn only three percent...people in the emerging playwrights field saying that...which there was no playwright to give it to. When...
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Inside the Violence: An Interview with the Playwright

Magazine article by Tanya Palmer; American Theatre, Vol. 28, July 2011

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Dramatists--Interviews, Playwrights--Interviews, Saracho, Tanya--Interviews

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...Mexico, and is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists (emeritus), a resident playwright at Teatro Vista, a Goodman...Yunuen Pardo (Dunia). Playwrights dedication: "This play...Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth), and of all...authors agent in writing. Playwright and dramaturg Tanya Palmer...

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Newspaper Articles on: british playwright

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The ANGRY GENIUS; A Curmudgeon Who Thinks the World Is Going Down the Drain, Harold Pinter Yesterday Became the First British Playwright Ever to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 14, 2005

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Pinter, Harold

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Drain, Harold Pinter Yesterday Became the First British Playwright Ever to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Byline...flow. Harold Pinter yesterday became the first British playwright ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature...
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Emmy-Winning Singer; Noted British Playwright

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 28, 2008

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News agencies, The Associated Press

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Emmy-Winning Singer; Noted British Playwright. Byline: Associated Press Eartha...during a visit to the White House. British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter...President George W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the...
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London's New Battleground; Dramatic Entry: The First British-Born Black Playwright to Be Staged in the West End, Kwame Kwei-Armah Says the Country Now Needs a Black Actor to Become a Household Name

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 15, 2008

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Actors, Actresses

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...Dramatic Entry: The First British-Born Black Playwright to Be Staged in the West End...playElminas Kitchen was the first by a British-born black dramatist to be...the lead. "Name me a black British star," he challenges. I name...
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Playtime for a New Generation; Why Isn't Everyone Celebrating the Rise in Black British Writing, Asks a Former Winner of the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award

Newspaper article by Roy L. Williams; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 18, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Celebrating the Rise in Black British Writing, Asks a Former Winner...Evening Standards Most Promising Playwright Award. by Roy L. Williams...important happening to black British theatre this year? Over a...will have staged new black British work. Kwame Kwei-Armahs...
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Shakespeare's Women; He May Have Been the World's Greatest Playwright but Was Shakespeare Successful in His Personal Relationships? as a One-Woman Show Focusing on His Wife Anne Hathaway Gets Its British Premiere in Wales, Karen Price Speaks to the Director

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 19, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Have Been the Worlds Greatest Playwright but Was Shakespeare Successful...Wife Anne Hathaway Gets Its British Premiere in Wales, Karen...Parry will be doing in the British premiere of Shakespeares Will...Hathaway, the wife of the great playwright, other characters like his...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: british playwright

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Hare, David

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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HARE, DAVID 1947 , British playwright. Hare is a prominent member of the British theatrical left. A founder of the Portable Theatre...a satirical commentary on the state of modern British society. He achieved wide critical and popular...
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Burgoyne, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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BURGOYNE, JOHN b rgoin , 1722 92, British general and playwright. In the Seven Years War, his victory over the Spanish in storming (1762) Valencia de Alcantara in Portugal made him the toast...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...John Dryden began as a playwright but became the foremost...reflect all aspects of British society. In fact...Other novelists and playwrights of the 1950s, often...dissatisfaction with British society, combined...Among the best postwar British authors were the Welsh...expatriate novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett . Thomass...
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National Parks and Monuments

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...5) Restored home of the playwright. Fords Theatre HS Washington...Sackville, seized from the British by General G. R. Clark in...American militia victory over British infantry and cavalry forces...Oct. 7, 1780) over the British during the Revolution. Manassas...
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Greene, Graham

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...GRAHAM (Henry Graham Greene), 1904 91, English novelist and playwright. Although most of his works combine elements of the detective...distinction. Greene was a superb journalist, a sometime British spy, and a world traveler, often courting danger in various...

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