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The German Stage, 1767-1890: A Directory of Playwrights and Plays

Book by Veronica C. Richel; Greenwood Press, 1988

Subjects:

German Drama--18th Century--Bio-Bibliography, German Drama--19th Century--Bio-Bibliography, Theater--Germany--History--18th Century--Sources, Theater--Germany--History--19th Century--Sources

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...5. 1842 6. Dr:1838Wm:1839 1. A playwright is entered under the name most freqently...Additional biographical information about the playwright can be found in the sources cited. See...language of the original play from which the German play was adapted. Many plays which are...
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American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950

Book by Yvonne Shafer; Peter Lang, 1997

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American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Drama--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Drama, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women In Literature

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...group, as well as one male playwright, Charles Klein. Speaking to...adapt On the Eve, a play by the German playwright Leopold Kampf. She...in Paris and in America, in German. Morton cast the German actress, Hedwig Reicher from...
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The Playwright as Thinker, a Study of Drama in Modern Times

Book by Eric Bentley; Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946

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Drama--19th Cent--History And Criticism, Drama--20th Cent--History And Criticism

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...England or America has come along to do for the great German playwrights what Schlegel and Tieck did for Shakespeare. Of...Circle and has even been regarded as the greatest German playwright; elsewhere he remains unknown. Yet his psychological...
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Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Book by Bernice Schrank, William W. Demastes; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Dramatists, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Drama--19th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Ireland--In Literature--Dictionaries, Theater--Ireland--Dictionaries

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...University Press, 1984. Monks, Julia. "The People I Meet: Lip-Reading Dramatist Acted as Dialogue Expert to German Playwright". Irish Press 29 Nov. 1957 . "New Abbey Theatre Play: Temporal Powers". Manchester Guardian 15 Sept. 1932...
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Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

Book by Jane T. Peterson, Suzanne Bennett; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

American Drama--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Drama--Minority Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Drama--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Ethnic Groups In Literature--Dictionaries, Fiction, Lesbians In Literature--Dictionaries, Lesbians' Writings, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Minorities In Literature--Dictionaries, Minority Women In Literature--Dictionaries, Women Dramatists, American--Biography--Dictionaries

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...Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and an Emmy Award nomination. Regina Taylor adapted two one-act plays by German playwright Franz Xavier Kroetz Ghost Train and Sty Farm which were workshopped at the Public Theatre in New York. She has also...

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Journal Articles on: german playwright

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Drama by German-speaking Playwrights in the Australian Theatrical Landscape: Changing Attitudes and Expectations

Journal article by Ulrike Garde; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2002

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Attitudes, Australia, Cultural relations, Dramatists, Germany, Theater

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...and that Australian playwrights themselves, such...cultural cringe," German-speaking playwrights shared with their...this trail-blazing Germans notions, quirks and...of what Australian playwright Jack Hibberd called...productions of drama by German-speaking playwrights because, in Melbourne...
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From Seeking One's Voice to Uttering the Scream: The Pioneering Journey of African American Women Playwrights through the 1960s and 1970s

Journal article by Olga Barrios; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

African American dramatists--History, African American dramatists--Social aspects, African American playwrights--History, African American playwrights--Social aspects, Women dramatists--History, Women dramatists--Social aspects, Women playwrights--History, Women playwrights--Social aspects

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...as African American playwright Sonia Sanchez has observed...African American women playwrights that the theater presents...Shanges admiration for German playwright and director Bertolt Brechts...lives. (16.) The French playwright and director was actually...considers it essential that playwrights include healing images...
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Joan Templeton. Munch's Ibsen: A Painter's Visions of a Playwright

Journal article by Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr.; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 81, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Munch's Ibsen: A Painter's Visions of a Playwright (Critical work)--Book reviews

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...A Painters Visions of a Playwright. by Clarence Burton Sheffield...A Painters Visions of a Playwright. Seattle: u Washington...acquainted in Berlin with Ibsens German translator, Julias Elias...complex relationships to other playwrights such as Bjornson, Strindberg...as rather odd (e.g. "German translations of Ibsens plays...
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Juan Mayorga: Playwright without Borders

Journal article by Phyllis Zatlin; Western European Stages, Vol. 14, 2002

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Activism, Dramatists, Mayorga, Juan, Theater criticism

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Juan Mayorga: Playwright without Borders...basis. For younger playwrights in Spain todaywriters...initially learned German in the classroom...young European playwrights, where his play...began his career as playwright in the small...his play. The German, like the brief...Juan Mayorga, a playwright with a world view...
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Langston Hughes: the Poet as Playwright

Journal article by Don Evans; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 19, 1995

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Entertainment, Literature, Poetry, Theater

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Down South, or "Broadway playwrights" as he had been for Mulatto...As was stated earlier, playwrights Alice Childress and Lofton...an investigation of the playwrights interaction with his theatrical...bookwriter Elmer Rice and German born Kurt Weill. "That...between the composer and the playwright was ongoing as Rice refused...

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Magazine Articles on: german playwright

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An Unscrupulous Art: A German Playwright Detects the Glory of Theatre in Its Imperfect Present

Magazine article by Tankred Dorst; American Theatre, Vol. 20, March 2003

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Dorst, Tankred--Addresses, essays, lectures, Theater--Analysis, Theater--Fairs, festivals, etc., World Theater Day--Fairs, festivals, etc.

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An unscrupulous art: A German playwright detects the glory of theatre in its imperfect present. by Tankred Dorst World Theatre Day is celebrated annually on March 27...
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Mark Jackson Deutsch by Design: An Affinity for German Theatre Flavors His Genre-Bending Work in the Bay Area

Magazine article by Chloe Veltman; American Theatre, Vol. 26, April 2009

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Art, German--Influence, Dramatists--Practice, Dramatists--Works, German art--Influence, Jackson, Mark (American playwright)--Practice, Jackson, Mark (American playwright)--Works, Playwrights--Practice, Playwrights--Works

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...by Design: An Affinity for German Theatre Flavors His Genre...that the production "is not German enough." ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...believes that the cliches of German experimentalism--nudity...37-year-old director, playwright, educator and actor is that...trotting out habits. The Germans do this by course." Whether...
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His Own Pulitzer: Out Playwright Doug Wright Reflects on Winning the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for His Broadway Hit I Am My Own Wife

Magazine article by Gerard Raymond; The Advocate, May 11, 2004

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Dramatists--Interviews, Playwrights--Interviews, Pulitzer Prizes, Wright, Doug--Interviews

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...His Own Pulitzer: Out Playwright Doug Wright Reflects on...Mahlsdorf, a transgendered German, biologically mate...real hymn to her," the playwright explains. "I thought...into the arms of an East German transvestite."
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Bruce Norris in the Danger Zone: Why Does the 'Clybourne Park' Playwright Put Such a Premium on the Freedom to Provoke?

Magazine article by Beatrice Basso, Dan Rubin; American Theatre, Vol. 28, October 2011

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Dramatists--Interviews, Norris, Bruce--Interviews, Playwrights--Interviews

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...very funny subject if youre German. There are certain topics...still considered a "Chicago playwright," following a "Chicago...to as a "Chicago-style playwright," but theres no other Chicago...Tim Sanford--who runs Playwrights Horizons in New York where...I feel there are a lot of playwrights now who have only a vague...
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Young Guns: Playwrights Draw a Bead on the New Russia

Magazine article by John Freedman; American Theatre, Vol. 21, July 2004

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Dramatists--Works, Playwrights--Works, Russia--Social aspects, Theater--Forecasts and trends, Theater--Political aspects, Theater--Social aspects

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...Russians and heroes of the German Nibelung myth and begs comparisons...with his play Oblomov at the Playwright and Director Center in 2002...seat--something Russian playwrights have done extremely rarely...Kurochkins Transfer at the Playwright and Director Center and Caryl...outside looking in, Russian playwrights are now setting the tone...

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Newspaper Articles on: german playwright

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THEATRE Playwrights Directors Actors Producers Critics Owners

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 9, 2007

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Hytner, Nicholas

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

...daredto make drama out of German politics of the Sixties in...theatre hot. Tom Stoppard, 70 PLAYWRIGHT The handsome, inscrutable...and absurdity. No other playwright of the pasthalf century has...COMING Polly Stenham, 20 PLAYWRIGHT Most young playwrights draw us into worlds ofworking...
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Playwright's Work Is Not above a Cut; Flexible (and Very Successful) Author Ed Thomas Talks to Alun Prichard about the Challenges of Converting Raw Words into Theatre

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 22, 2004

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

Playwrights Work Is Not above a Cut; Flexible...Prichard AS Waless most successful playwright with three BAFTAs to his name you might...Colombian theatre group after they saw its German version in Europe. So intrigued was...they have made him our most successful playwright. n Stone City Blue runs until Saturday...
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London's Longest-Running Playwright; A Revival of His 1968 Play Total Eclipse Is about to Open and He's Had Rave Reviews for His 1976 Treats, with Billie Piper. at Last, Christopher Hampton Says, His Wallflowers Are Blooming

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 16, 2007

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Theater--Theater reviews

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Londons Longest-Running Playwright; A Revival of His 1968 Play Total...to be in Hamburg, improving his German before his third year at Oxford...Hamptons old schoolfriend and fellow playwright David Hare. In 1995, it mutated...
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`Vichy's' Shortcomings Belong to Playwright

Newspaper article by Eric M. Johnson; The Washington Times, August 26, 2000

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

`Vichys shortcomings belong to playwright by Eric M. Johnson Scarcely anything...are having their papers checked. The German major overseeing the operation may be...companies did not fail this play. The playwright failed them. WHAT: "Incident at Vichy...
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Addressing the Questions about a Destroyed City; Playwright Alan Pollock Talks to Terry Grimley about His New Play Set during the Coventry Blitz

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 12, 2008

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

...the Questions about a Destroyed City; Playwright Alan Pollock Talks to Terry Grimley...defined the history of Coventry. The German air-raid that took place that night...because they would have alerted the Germans to the fact that the Enigma code had...from all over the Midlands Alan Pollock Playwright Alan Pollock, who grew up in Coventry...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: german playwright

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DÜrrenmatt, Friedrich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...FRIEDRICH fre drikh dur nmat, 1921 90, Swiss playwright and novelist. Durrenmatts writings depict a world both comic and grotesque. As a young German-speaking playwright in Switzerland, he was witness to the rise of...
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Kaiser, Georg

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

KAISER, GEORG ga orkh ki z r, 1878 1945, German expressionist playwright. His early plays dealt with the erotic and the psychological. In maturity Kaiser turned to social themes, glorifying the ideal...
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Freytag, Gustav

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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FREYTAG, GUSTAV goo staf fri takh, 1816 95, German novelist and playwright. He taught at the Univ. of Breslau and edited...Manuscript, 1865), and his ambitious series of German historical novels, Die Ahnen (1873 81, tr. of...
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Grass, GÜnter

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...lyricist, artist, and playwright, b. Danzig (now Gdansk...1945 Soviet torpedoing of the German refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff...fictional story of a single German family, to illuminate various phases in 20th-century German history, creating a story...Nazi history, shocked many Germans and troubled other admirers...
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BÖll, Heinrich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...HEINRICH hin rikh bol, 1917 85, German novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Boll presents a critical...church, and contemporary German society. Among his other...Reid, Henrich Boll: A German for His Time (1988...

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