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6 days ago · Chief among Ian’s aims is to live to see his playwright brother Graham’s ... a trailblazing actress and comedian and long-time mistress of King Charles II. ... on Wexford Road in Wood End.
4 days ago · George Bernard Shaw, Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Among his most notable plays are Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man and Superman, and Major Barbara.
- George Bernard Shaw is famous for his role in revolutionizing comedic drama. He was also a literary critic and a prominent British socialist. Shaw’...
- George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the youngest of three children. He was raised in genteel poverty, and his mother’s career as a...
- George Bernard Shaw wrote rather unmemorable fiction throughout his 20s and early 30s. In 1885 the drama critic William Archer recruited Shaw to wr...
- George Bernard Shaw’s plays are thematically diverse. He wove threads of humour and romance between analyses of contemporary hypocrisies and social...
- In the mid-1880s George Bernard Shaw joined the Fabian Society, a newly formed socialist club for middle-class intellectuals hoping to transform En...
4 days ago · Brian Patrick Friel (c. 9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists.
2 days ago · Wood was arrested two days later, and several items were seized from his home including two green jackets, a pair of grey jogging bottoms, a police baton, and a flip knife with a 3.5-inch blade.
3 days ago · As a playwright, I had some short plays — ten- or twelve-page one-acts — and I mailed those to Randall. On Halloween night of 1989, the phone rang in our one-room apartment, which was a four-floor walk-up on Christopher Street. Kate answered and was astonished to hear the radio come out of her phone.
Made of painted wood, ... It was Kircher’s Mathematical Organ that inspired the English mathematician Charles ... it listed three dozen predicaments designed to help a struggling playwright ...