These happen to be themes that have long fascinated the dramatist: a strange impatience to outwit time and the solitude of ambition.
Chameroy says he knows there are people who'll be upset by the pairing of the greatest dramatist in the English language with a pop band.
The opportunity to work with dialogue written by Stoppard, whom Hall calls the "greatest living dramatist in the English language, " was a major draw for the actor, as was her appreciation for Ford Madox Ford, who wrote the novel on which the miniseries is based.
The Mirror of the Worlde, the first works by poet and dramatist Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, was found in Burford Church, Oxfordshire, in the 1970s.
German dramatist Bertolt Brecht harpooned the arrogance of the privileged class ("well-born stinkers") in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle, " his 1944 absurdist tale of exile, social inequality and misguided justice.
His translations introduced the English to Jean Anouilh, a French dramatist whom they came to like much better than himself.
And, being a contrarian and a dramatist, Mr. Mamet doubtless relishes the attention for his heresy.
The piazza outside the new Curve performing arts centre is to be named Orton Square after dramatist Joe Orton, who was known for his black comedies.
It is, however, a vivid, engaging and sometimes maddeningly self-indulgent text in which the author dances a pas de deux between his roles as historian and dramatist.
In the two decades since his humor took center stage, Ives is now a playwright who dives into failed plays or musicals and fixes them, whether they're a stage version of the Irving Berlin film "White Christmas, " a French farce about marital mayhem from the early 1900s, or a work by a 17th-century French dramatist.
Many of the tracks on All is Wild, All is Silent contain natural storyline trajectories that would make German dramatist Gustav Freytag proud.
With Amadeus, dramatist Peter Shaffer was having fun with history and biography, and his play doubtless increased the popularity of Mozart in our times.
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It would go on to host performances and lectures delivered by Irish dramatist and political thinker George Bernard Shaw, Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and Pankhurst, one of the leading figures in the campaign for votes for women.
"I think the greatest short story writer of all time was Somerset Maugham, " he said, expressing admiration for English dramatist and writer.
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In the festival itself, the drama highlight was work by Ramon del Valle-Inclan, a Spanish, or more precisely Galician, dramatist who died in 1936.
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