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Independence Community College University of Kansas ( BA) Vanderbilt University. Occupation (s) Playwright, novelist. Years active. 1947–1973. William Motter Inge ( / ˈɪndʒ /; [1] May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual ...
Genre. Naturalism. Miss Julie ( Swedish: Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of a count in Sweden. Miss Julie is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean, who ...
John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur, who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in post-war theatre. [1] [2] [3] Born in London, he briefly worked as a journalist [4] before starting out in theatre as a stage manager and actor. [5]
Lauren Gunderson (born February 5, 1982) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and short story author, born in Atlanta. She lives in San Francisco , where she teaches playwriting. [1] Gunderson was recognized by American Theatre magazine as America's most produced living playwright at Theatre Communications Group (TCG, the magazine's ...
Shakespeare's sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming metre and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. With few exceptions, Shakespeare's sonnets observe the ...
Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create an illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies. Interest in naturalism especially flourished with the French playwrights of the time, but the most successful ...
Robert Altman (1925–2006, United States) Alejandro Rodriguez Alvarez (1903–1965, Spain) Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero (1871–1938 and 1873–1944, Spain) Mark Ambient (1860–1937, England) Franco Ambriz (living, Brooklyn, New York) Angelo Ambrogini {redirect to Angelo Poliziano }
Topher Payne (born 1979) is an American playwright and screenwriter based in Atlanta, Georgia. Two of his plays premiered in 2015: Perfect Arrangement, which premiered Off-Broadway and was produced by Primary Stages, [1] and Angry Fags, which was produced at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. [2]