Word: dramatistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...February 1673, the great French dramatist Jean Baptiste Poquelin, whose nom de plume was Moliere, ignored his failing health and insisted on acting in Le Malade Imaginaire, the last play he ever wrote. Unlike the hero of his comedy, Moliere, 51, was suffering from no imaginary illness. He had a convulsion on the stage of Paris' Palais Royal Theater, was carried home, where he died after a violent fit of coughing...
...Loeb Drama Center, Hartman said, should "provide the freest possible place for the student dramatist to work out his impressions of life in theatrical terms...
...change, however, the first couple of acts abound in comedy: not bad stuff, though nothing a real comic dramatist need be particularly proud of, and spoiled because the characters find it funnier than the audience...
...major event was the American premier of The Burnt Flower-Bed, written in 1952 by the late Italian dramatist Ugo Betti. Betti has been hailed as a greater playwright than Pirandello; he is certainly not that, but he does deserve a place among the most important modern writers for the theatre. This play deals with the problem of present-day nihilism and international political diplomacy. If it did not lapse periodically into propagandistic sermonizing, it would be a masterpiece...
Stuart Atkins, professor of German here at Harvard, discussed "Friedrich Schiller and Ideal Drama," in the final lecture of the Thursday afternoon series last week. He explained the nature of the German dramatist's idealistic philosophy...