Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year 1582 a William Shakespeare married an Anne Hathaway. Little is known of the progress of their union, but of their progeny, one fact is certain: Mrs. Shakespeare gave birth to twins. Doubtless this fact, if it did not inspire, at least aided the playwright in accurately describing the behavior of twins as he did in Twelfth Night, as he did again in The Comedy of Errors...
Critics don't cut much ice with Leslie Howard, playwright and actor now playing in "Escape" at the Plymouth theatre. This much he admitted to a CRIMSON reporter in his dressing room after the matinee yesterday...
...That a play in nine episodes such as "Escape" could run twenty weeks in New York is a good deal of a triumph. If you were to tell an average playwright to take nine scenes, a prisoner escaping, and later being caught, with no trace of romance, and write a play out of it, he would turn out something of a mess, unquestionably. There is not much on the surface to work with...
...Galsworthy makes the small parts real, any man can write a lead that will not play too badly, but so much of the fineness of the play lies in the small parts that the great playwright won't overlook them...
...into the classic drama, happened upon this occasionally beautiful, often bombastic, box-office piece by William Shakespeare and produced it with all the whisperings, stampings, posturings and spur-clankings that generations of Shakespearian ragpickers in the acting profession have taught people to associate with the poetry of the immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially delight those who had read their Shakespeare often...