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folk drama
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......individual contribution to the drama of playwright, director, and...witnessed a revival of folk drama in the United States and parts...and poet Maurice Pottecher. American universities, including North...regional history plays. One yearly drama presented outside the university......
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Nathan, George Jean
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......Nathan, 1882–1958, American editor and drama critic, b. Fort Wayne...lively literature and drama; for a decade the magazine was the arbiter of American literary taste. Nathan was himself primarily a drama critic, famous for the......
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mask
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......an integral part of Japanese drama, especially of the No plays...Chinese temple dramas (see Asian drama). The many masks used in ancient Greek drama represented the character being...events. See African art; North American Native art; masque. See R......
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English literature
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......English speakers elsewhere, see American literature; Australian literature...spare poetry.Early Tudor drama owed much to both medieval...16th and early 17th cent., drama flourished in England as never...set the course of Renaissance drama and paved the way for Shakespeare......
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dance
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......and Ceremonial DanceNative American dances illustrate most of the...remarkable Ghost Dance.Native American dancing is always performed...part in the development of the drama and in religious worship...times.In India dance and drama have usually been related......
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Kushner, Tony
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......kŏŏsh´nər), 1956–, American playwright, b. New York City...Prize– and Tony-winning drama of life in the age of AIDS mingles...an Emmy-winning television drama (2002), directed by Mike...2001), a linguistically rich drama centered about an imaginary......
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Bentley, Eric
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......Eric Bentley, 1916–, American critic, editor, and...particularly of the drama, Bentley is the author...1956), The Life of the Drama (1964), The Importance...61). He was the drama critic for the New Republic...and the House Un-American Activities Committee......
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Brustein, Robert Sanford
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......Brustein, 1927–, American educator and drama critic, b. New...the Yale Univ. Drama School (1966...one of the major American training grounds...head of the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard...1966–2002) the American Repertory Theater......
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Allen, Woody
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...Woody Allen, 1935–, American actor, writer, and director...s later work in comedy and drama explores these themes as well...comedy; the probing family drama Hannah and Her Sisters (1986...1992), a bittersweet domestic drama; the romantic and partly musical......
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Archer, William
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......Throughout his life he worked as drama critic on several London newspapers...influenced the direction of English and American drama through his active interest in the...Masks or Faces (1888), The Old Drama and the New (1923), and several......