Word: playwrightes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Playwright Vaclav Havel, Journalist Jiri Lederer and Writer Frantisek Pavlicek, who are prominent chartists, awaited trial in Prague. Police meanwhile swooped down on signers and took away their identity cards, making it impossible for them to use the post office. Others found that their children had been barred from colleges and universities. Chartists continued to refuse government offers to let them emigrate, electing to remain with their countrymen in spite of the risk. When one activist was arrested, another had already been designated to take his place. The goal of the charter movement, says one of its founders, Philosopher...
...also ruled out the "To be, or not to be" speech from Hamlet because "suicide is a big youth problem too." Winkler's aim is to show Shakespeare "as a very contemporary playwright who is filled with the emotions that everyone can understand." Says Winkler, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama: "Nothing I have done on television has ever meant more...
Alan Bates put an angrier edge on Simon when he originated the part in London, but there is much to be said for the sweet slyness (and the dead eyes) of Courtenay's interpretation. He gets the same mileage out of Playwright Gray's powerfully witty lines, which are the source of Simon's charm. Their inventiveness and stylishness keep the other characters from flying out of his orbit while keeping audiences riveted in their seats and even caring about the s.o.b...
...19th century scandal sheets and an inexhaustible gossip topic for European salons. But in this new biography, Joseph Barry correctly points out that Sand was more than the mistress of famous men and deserves to be recognized as such. She was a prolific, if now rarely read, novelist and playwright, an early feminist, a virulent anti-clericalist and, until old age and disillusionment set in, a self-declared communist...
...Part of Shakespeare's genius, as any good reader of the "Sources" section of Signet editions knows, was to find the dramatic in someone else's plot. An academician will tell you there is universal meaning and appeal in great works of art. As if to test that definition, playwrights have frequently adapted recongnized greats to new settings and genres. This spring Harvard dramatics offers all kinds of adaptations: Antigone is transported to a troubled Latin American nation and "Wherefore art thou" is put to music. Adaptations are a recognized art form. As T.S. Eliot said, "The immature artist borrows...