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Journal articles on the topic "Dramatists, biography"

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Bergeron, David M. "Ben Jonson's Patron, Esmé Stuart." Ben Jonson Journal 31, no. 1 (2024): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2024.0359.

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The entry for Esmé Stuart, brother of Ludovic, Duke of Lennox, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography occupies a mere two paragraphs. But who was this person who served James I from 1603 until his death in 1624? This article argues for Esmé's importance and produces evidence to support the claim, beginning with his becoming a Gentleman of the Bedchamber and member of the Privy Council in 1603. Later that year the king granted Esmé a license to export 6,000 tons of “double beer.” This marks just the beginning of the king's exceptional largesse. More grants and privileges flowed Esmé's w

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O'Brien, Richard. "“Put not / Beyond the sphere of your activity”: The Fictional Afterlives of Ben Jonson." Ben Jonson Journal 23, no. 2 (2016): 169–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2016.0163.

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This article investigates the cultural assumptions which underpin five twentieth and twenty-first century fictional depictions of Ben Jonson. Despite the wealth of documentary evidence for Jonson's dramatic and fractious biography, its particular richness has rarely captured the imagination of contemporary authors. To account for the much-reduced presence Jonson occupies in the ongoing fictionalization of the English Renaissance, the author outlines the development of a pseudo-biographical narrative of Jonson's life which evolved over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in relation to the

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Ruiz Garcia, Raquel. "Sense of place in Zöe Akins's Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting." Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 36, no. 3 (2003): 71–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.2003.1706.

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The aim of our paper is to analyse the treatment given by Zöe Akins (1886-1958), an American playwright from Humansville, Missouri, of the urban setting of New York in the second decade of the twentieth century in the play mentioned above. Akins, who follows a common pattern among successful American dramatists in her time, presents in Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting (1923) a plot that is perfectly integrated in New York area. The Fields progression from a low middle class settlement in Harlem to other scenes of the city informs the development of family life towards désintégration. Akins, whose biogra

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Vysotska, Natalia. "Playing Upon Biographical Myths: William Shakespeare and Lesia Ukrainka as Characters in Contemporary Drama." Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, no. 8 (December 24, 2021): 103–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18523/kmhj249192.2021-8.103-119.

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The article sets out to explore two plays by contemporary playwrights, one American (Don Nigro, Loves Labours Wonne), the other Ukrainian (Neda Nezhdana, And Still I will Betray You), focusing on William Shakespeare and Lesia Ukrainka, respectively, within the framework of “the author as character” subgenre of fictional (imaginative) biography. Accordingly, the article considers the correlation between the factual and the fi ctional as one of its foci of attention. Drawing upon a variety of theoretical approaches (Paul Franssen, Ton Hoenselaars, Ira Nadel, Aleid Fokkema, Michael MacKeon, Ina S

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Vince, Ronald. "Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, Vol. 58 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Edited by Fredson Bowers. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1987. Pp. xxii + 370. $92." Theatre Research International 13, no. 3 (1988): 276–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300005848.

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Bigsby, C. W. E. "Ruby Cohn, New American Dramatists: 1960–1980 (London: Macmillan Modern Dramatists series, 1985, $7.95 paper). Pp. 186. ISBN 0 333 28914 5. - Theodore Shank, American Alternative Theatre (London: Macmillan Modern Dramatists series, 1985, $7.95 paper). Pp. 202. ISBN 0 333 28883 1. - Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris, eds., Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 38 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985, $85.00). Pp. 390 ISBN 0 8103 1716 8." Journal of American Studies 20, no. 1 (1986): 127–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800016558.

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Fortier, Frances, Caroline Dupont, and Robin Servant. "Quand la biographie se « dramatise »." Dossier 30, no. 2 (2005): 79–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/011245ar.

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Résumé Les six pièces retenues pour cet article mettent en scène des figures d’écrivains montrées sous divers angles biographiques : Gustave Flaubert, Emily Dickinson, Laure Conan, Léon Tolstoï, Jean-Paul Sartre et Eugene O’Neill y deviennent des personnages qui rejouent un aspect ou l’autre de leur vie et de leur oeuvre. Sollicitant à la fois le factuel et l’imaginaire, ces productions déploient le matériau biographique à la faveur de transpositions stylistiques, génériques, temporelles, géographiques qui, loin de reconduire le mythe, convient plutôt à sa relecture. Si les tonalités peuvent v

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Denzin, Norman K. "Ishi and the Wood Ducks, Part 2, or Ishi, the “Urban” Indian1." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 19, no. 4 (2018): 305–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708618787470.

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“Ishi and the Wood Ducks, Part 2, or Ishi, The ‘Urban’” Indian” is the first play in a five-play cycle, which dramatizes the events surrounding the life and death of a tribal man named Ishi who was immortalized in Theodora Kroeber’s (1961/1989) best-selling Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.

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Iftimie, Ana-Maria. "No Cultural Icon, Just a Man: Representing Shakespeare in Kenneth Branagh’s Biopic "All Is True" (2018)." Linguaculture 12, no. 1 (2021): 102–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2021-1-0190.

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While mainly addressing the masses and the simpler tastes of his time, Shakespeare’s plays have long been considered emblematic for high culture, which calls into question whether their author should still be regarded as representative for the elites or whether his life and personality should be demystified and brought back to the people. An attempt in this respect, showcased by this paper, seems to be Kenneth Branagh’s biopic All Is True (2018), which portrays Shakespeare as an ordinary man rather than as an illustrious playwright, allowing the public to see the human being behind his almost

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Lazirko, Nataliia. "GEORGE KAISER’S WRITING IN THE RECEPTION OF YURI KLEN." Polish Studies of Kyiv, no. 35 (2019): 201–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/psk.2019.35.201-206.

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The given article deals with Klen’s research of the German dramatist George Kaiser. The main parameters of artistic universe of this author are presented in the article. There are also outlined the methodological strategies of research the German dramatist’s creativity by Yuri Klen – a well-known Ukrainian literary critic. Georg Kaiser is one of the brightest representatives of theatrical and literary expressionism. His plays are the unique phenomenon in the 20th century drama. His expressionism appeared to be the special one and the global and scope of plots allowed scientists to call G. Kais

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Dramatists, biography"

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LEMP, RICHARD WARREN. "MOLIERE AND MEDICINE: DISSECTING THE KALEIDOSCOPE (FRANCE)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183776.

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The subject of medicine in the works of Moliere has been traditionally treated as a matter of satire. While it is important to consider this view and while biographical approaches relating Moliere's personal illness to the content of his medical comedy are illuminating, this study proposes that a plurality of views offers a more complete picture. Such analysis discovers that Moliere's medical comedy is much more than satire, that it contains elements of black humor and even approaches the theater of cruelty in its treatment of sickness and death. The metaphor in this approach is in the percept

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Books on the topic "Dramatists, biography"

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Fredson, Bowers, ed. Elizabethan dramatists. Gale Research Co., 1987.

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Robert, Ferguson. Henrik Ibsen: A new biography. R. Cohen, 1996.

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Ule, Louis. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1607): A biography. Carlton Press Corp., 1995.

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Kendall, Alan. David Garrick: A biography. Harrap, 1985.

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Kendall, Alan. David Garrick: A biography. St. Martin's Press, 1985.

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1960-, Berney K. A., and Templeton N. G, eds. Contemporary American dramatists. St. James Press, 1994.

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Hoffman, James F. The ecstasy of resistance: A biography of George Ryga. ECW Press, 1995.

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Kirkpatrick, D. L. Contemporary dramatists. 4th ed. Edited by Kirkpatrick D. L. St. James, 1988.

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Adam, Versényi, ed. Latin American dramatists. Thomson Gale, 2005.

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Adam, Versényi, ed. Latin American dramatists. Thomson Gale, 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Dramatists, biography"

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"Dramatis Personae." In The "Yoga Sutra of Patanjali": A Biography. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400850051-001.

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Roberts, Neil. "Bert and Jessie, 1901–1909." In Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781942954187.003.0002.

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This chapter traces Lawrence’s family history and relationship with Jessie Chambers over the period 1901-1909, focussing on key episodes in the autobiographical background to the novel, especially the crisis in 1906 when he told Jessie that he did not love her as a man should love his wife, as well as Jessie’s importance as the first reader of Lawrence’s youthful writing. The chapter also traces Lawrence’s early writing career, focussing on his mentoring by Ford Madox Hueffer and early texts such as The White Peacock, ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ and the play A Collier’s Friday Night. The play, written before Lawrence began work on Sons and Lovers, dramatises a scene that was to be central to every surviving draft of the novel and can be considered the first draft of the ‘Strife in Love’ chapter. Lawrence’s struggle between notions of bourgeois literary taste and the expectation that he would be a writer of working-class fiction is also an important theme.

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Woodman, A. J. "Amateur Dramatics at the Court of Nero (Annals I 5. 48-74)." In Tacitus Reviewed. Oxford University PressOxford, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198152583.003.0011.

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Abstract The Pisonian conspiracy against Nero in AD 65 is described as ‘a dismal failure’ in the emperor’s most recent English biography, where the subject is assigned a mere two and a half pages.1 Similarly Suetonius and Dio provide only brief accounts. Yet Tacitus devotes to the conspiracy and its aftermath the last twenty-seven chapters of Annals 15: it is thus the longest single episode in the whole of the extant Annals3 and the longest by far in the later books.4 This is a striking discrepancy. Moreover, by making the start of his account coincide with the start of the narrative of the year 65, and by making the end of it coincide with the end of Book 15, Tacitus has given to the conspiracy a coherence and unity it did not possess in real life.

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Pfeiffer, Douglas S. "Epilogue: Biographism as Close Reading in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76 (1609) and Machiavelli’s “Letter to Vettori” (1513)." In Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198714163.003.0007.

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The practice of reading books for signs of their writers’ personalities found application well beyond its home territories of textual interpretation and paratextual author biography. The Epilogue examines two canonical literary works that, rather than equipping readers to engage with other texts and their authors, incorporate the notion of a life-works link into their own thematics. First, Machiavelli’s “Letter to Vettori” includes one of the era’s most intimate and yet fictionalizing accounts of the experience of reading; it presents books not to be like their authors but in effect to be the authors themselves. Second, the Epilogue shows how Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76, by depicting the speaker and his “fair friend” disagreeing about what, exactly, style has to do with the man, both dramatizes and, in doing so, invites the sort of speculation about the relationship of author to poet speaker that the 1609 Sonnets as a whole has long entertained.

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Garloff, Katja. "Toward the Present and the Future." In Mixed Feelings. Cornell University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501704963.003.0008.

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This chapter shows that even Scholem's “Jews and Germans,” despite its explicit rejection of the past Jewish love for things German, relies on tropes of love to conjure the possibility of a future German-Jewish dialogue. Another famous German Jewish thinker, Hannah Arendt, is more outspoken in her valorization of love as a mode of sociopolitical intervention. In her biography of a Jewish salonnière of the Romantic era, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Arendt affirms the love of the pariah as a form of solidarity that is rooted in shared experiences of marginalization. Finally, the chapter turns to the decade after the 1990 unification of Germany, when the theme of interreligious or intercultural love enjoyed much popularity both in mainstream feature films and in contemporary German Jewish writers. Barbara Honigmann, for instance, dramatizes failing Jewish-Gentile love affairs to show how memories of the Third Reich continue to disrupt German-Jewish relations in the present. But this is not a negation of love as a trope of interreligious or intercultural mediation. Love remains an important trope in Honigmann, one that allows her to imagine a new kind of German Jewish diaspora.

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Robertson, Fiona. "Walter Scott." In Literature of the Romantic Period. Oxford University PressOxford, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198711209.003.0011.

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Abstract As the most prolific author of his day and the most influential novelist of the nineteenth century, Scott attracted extensive critical commentary for many decades. At the end of the Victorian period, however, his critical fortunes went into apparently irreversible decline. Their recent revival, stimulated by new developments in criticism and theory, has made Scott the focus of some of the most innovative and most illuminating scholarship in contemporary Romantic studies; and this revaluation has important implications for the study of the Romantic period as a whole. The range of Scott ‘s writing is in itself a challenge to narrower notions of Romanticism. He was prolific in all the major modern literary forms: famous first as a poet and ballad collector; a respected literary reviewer and editor; an influential supporter of Scottish theatre and a less influential dramatist; a letter-writer of very high quality and the keeper of one of literature ‘s greatest personal journals; a historian and biographer, most notably of Napoleon; the author of a highly successful series of historical works for children; and, most importantly of all, an innovative writer of historical fiction. The most central of marginalized figures, Scott requires critics to reconsider traditional configurations of the period and its characteristic literary modes.

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