Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Summer School will open its Tuesday Evening Literary Series with Lillian Hellman, American playwright, in an informal dialogue with professor Daniel Seltzer followed by questions from the audience. Tuesday, July 9, Emerson Hall...
...playwright, who had written one historical tetralogy (the three Henry VI plays and Richard III), was here embarking on another, which would continue with 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V. Although it lacks the artistic unity of, say, Wagner's Ring tetralogy, it does among other things constitute a corporate course in the true art of monarchical government. In Richard II Shakespeare shows us a properly titled divine-right king who lacks the qualities of leadership. In the pair of Henry IV plays we see a gifted leader plagued by his lack of legitimate title. Finally, in Henry...
...music. It emanates from the rumble of gospel chords and the plaintive cry of the blues. It is compounded of raw emotion, pulsing rhythm and spare, earthy lyrics?all suffused with the sensual, somewhat melancholy vibrations of the Negro idiom. Always the Negro idiom. LeRoi Jones, the militant Negro playwright, says: "Soul music is music coming out of the black spirit." For decades, it only reverberated around the edges of white pop music, injecting its native accent here and there; now it has penetrated to the core, and its tone and beat are triumphant...
...MEMORANDUM. While amusing, this fantasy is crossed with currents of chilling reality, in describing a bureaucracy after the introduction of an artificial language. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel's social satire is intelligently mounted at Joseph Papp's Public Theater...
...novel, however, and it is an achievement quite apart from female impersonation that Moore's novel is excellent. It is a psychological study of one day in the life of Mary Dunne, a pretty woman of 33, married more or less happily to her third husband, a successful playwright. Dunne's day is a series of emotional squalls, between which she ducks in and out of recollected doorways...