Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Folio was formerly owned by Frederick Locker-Lamson, the English poet, and contains most of Shakespeare's works. The frontispiece bears an engraving of the great dramatist, as do all of the first four Folios. This engraving has always been an object of ridicule by those who hold to the theory that Bacon wrote the works accredited to Shakespeare. These Baconians claim that the picture is nothing more than a mask, a back, and two left arms. Ben Jonson, however, according to all true Shakespearians, refutes this definitely in his verse which accompanies in his verse which accompanies...
...indignation there arise the virtue and the weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national menace...
That was in the period of the poet's early fame, after the publication of "The Everlasting Mercy" and "The Widow in Bye Street." President Lowell's citation to him then read, "poet and dramatist who tells with simple native force stories of sea and land, of sin and death, of peace...
...settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite a play about life in jail!" In Manhattan the high-strung dramatist faced newshawks after three days in seclusion. "I assure you that I took all this very hard," said George Kaufman. "There is only one thing I resent about the case. Some newspaper writer referred to me as a middle-aged playwright. The reason I resent it so much is because it's true...
...Dramatist Kaufman...