Contemporary playwrights are constantly writing about and commenting on current social and political issues. ... In this play, six playwrights have met late one night to get drunk and bury their dead friend, Ding, also a playwright, and wrapped in a sheet on the stage floor throughout the piece. There is also an eighth character in the play, the recorded voice of "the playwright-, giving the entire piece a Brecht-like quality. ... For example, there is the poor one, the intellectual feminist from London described as "cool, and beginning to sound British-, the angry bisexual who writes noth...

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There was a sense of fear amongst American people, and one of the few escapes from the real world was entertainment. ... However, in 1947 one of the most significant plays in American history opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. ... The overt sexual themes and innovative blend of realism and expressionism captivated audiences and became definitive characteristics of one of the great American playwrights, Tennessee Williams (Wilmeth 686). ... Today, it is commonplace that a director working with a playwright on the production of a play is a full collaborator in the work. ... Criti...

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However, since the 19th century, Shakespeare's reputation has massively gained from just being rated as just another playwright among others to having a significant role in the English language and being one of the best and honored poets in all history. A well-respected poet and playwright named Ben Jonson- who wrote a poem introduction for the First folio in honor of Shakespeare is linked to National identity because Jonson was an Englishman; however while Jonson had been more wealthy and he was more well-known, prosperous poet and playwright, highly educated and had studied English in ...

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William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. ... American Journal of Psychoanalysis 42(1982): 7-20. ... American Journal of Psychoanalysis 42(1982): 7-20. ...

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After the war, the American Dream, an ethos which offered the chance of wealth even to those who start with nothing, began to be misinterpreted. The great misconception was a person's inability to achieve the ideals of the American Dream must mean there are flaws in their personality. ... Both playwrights delve towards "the marrow" of truth and slowly reveal how facing the truth is necessary, however painful. ... The playwrights both deal with the "decline of the west" through Truth and Illusion. ...

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Some supporters of realism said that if the audience did not agree with what they saw on the stage they should aim to change the society around them from where the playwright received his inspiration, and not criticize the playwright himself. ... It began in Paris during the 1880s as a joint venture of artists, playwrights, essayists, critics, sculptors, and poets. ... His influence on European and American production methods was extensive. ...

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He was both a poet and a playwright all in one. ... With help from some of his fellow artists and exiles, especially Lion Feuchtwagner, Brecht was able to come to the United States of America. ... Around 1947 The United States of America was going through a red scare, or fear of the spread of communism. The House Un-American Activities Committee, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, questioned and accused anyone remotely suspicious of being a communist. ... As a playwright he was a restless worker and a man in pursuit of idealistic change, by properly presenting his beliefs to the public. ...

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LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, playwright, author, poet, activist, critic, and educator. ... Also with Diane di Prima he founded, in 1961 the American Theater for Poets, an experimental dramatic troupe which read the works of various poets and dramatist in local coffee houses. ... He was growing tired of the Bohemians, he joined the Beat generation because he regarded its members as spiritual outsiders who were against white middle - class America. ... He felt that the Black artist must express his American experience in forms that spring from his own unique culture and that his art must be eval...

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She is also one of the most influential African-Americans in American history. ... During the time that Maya was growing up, America was just recovering from the Great Depression and it was also a time when African Americans were oppressed. ... In 1952 Maya met a Greek -American sailor named Tosh Angelos. ... Maya is not only known for her works in poetry, she also took a hand at being a playwright. ... In my opinion, Maya is a true American Genius, not only for her works in poetry, but for beating the odds, and becoming the most influential African American Woman in my opinion. ...

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Most of his best work deals with themes more known or recognized by black Americans without dwelling on dialect or stereotype. ... He was not only a poet but also a writer, novelist, playwright, critic, editor, educator, and children's author. ... ("Harlem Renaissance" 2) At this time more than ever before the voices of black Americans were being raised and heard like never before so then major publishing houses became eager to put into print the expressions and feeling of the African American writers. Many black writers began to write books for children and for young people using Africa...

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The birth control pill introduced to the public in 1960 through the help of many great advocates changed the face of American sexuality, shaping American sex culture, and culture in general, as we know it today. ... The pill, less than one inch long, has been single-handily credited with revolutionizing American sex culture. ... (Asbell 177) The Pill enabled not only the planning of a family but also the planning of a life through the timing of a career. " " Modern women," declared the playwright Clare Booth Luce, "is at last free as a man is free, to dispose of her own body, to earn her l...

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Playwright Arthur Miller believes that the common man can be a center of dramatic interest, and he demonstrated this belief in Death of a Salesman, a tragedy about a very common common-man: a salesman from Brooklyn. ... His paramount obsession with the American dream, which he has not achieved, causes him to seek solace in past memories while living in the present. ... He dreams the American legend: the brother who walked into the jungle and came out of it rich. ... Miller has captured the tragedy of the American common man in Death of a Salesman. ...

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In 1914 Hoover chaired the American Relief Commission, which helped 150000 Americans return home safely from World War One. He was continuously helping Americans during the war, which pleased the people. ... This had nearly no effect because it was brought in too late; American exports in 1932 were less than a third of what they were in 1929. ... In 1935 another organization formed called the Works Progress Administration and this funded various projects such as schools, roadwork's and hospitals and also the Federal Theatre project which employed playwrights artists, actors, musicians and...

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Tennessee Williams The world didn't know it yet, but on March 26, 1911 a man was born that will later, for their America heritage with classic, rebellions literature. ... The helped Blanca the Pandemonium in a wonderful, love filled way, before he died in 1961 of lunge cancer, this sent the Playwright into a long, deeo depressions threatened insanely and Mr. ... Miller condemned the ideal of American prosperity on the grounds that few pursue it w/o making dangerous moral compromises. ...

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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet, born near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and largely self-educated. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) - American poet, one of the most popular and celebrated poets of his time. ... Langston Hughes (1902-1967) - American writer, known for the use of jazz and black folk rhythms in his poetry. ... Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) - American poet and biographer, known for his unrhymed free verse which uses precise and vivid images to portray the energy and brutality of American urban industrial life. ... Marianne Moore (1887-1972) - American poet, n...

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Introduction Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible,"" was first published in 1953 during the politically tumultuous time of McCarthyist America. ... Miller positions audiences to view Proctor as a good honest man and in doing so, the playwright also foregrounds the irony in Proctor's persecution and how this indicates the flaws and true motivations of the Salem witch trials. 15. ...

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The first account of dancing known to man came from the ancient civilizations of the Middle East, India, the Americas, Africa, and Australia. ... It has also been proven that Australians, the American natives and Africans danced for spiritual reasons and for entertainment purposes. ... Both Lully and Beauchamp, collaborated with France's great playwright Moliére in order to create court ballets, opera-ballets, and other fabulous spectacles. ...

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Eugene O'Neill - -Long Day's Journey into Night- page 1340 Eugene O'Neill 1888-1953 Eugene O'Neill was the nation's first major playwright and the first to explore serious themes in theatre and to experiment with theatrical conventions. ... He started with nothing but became rich and famous, which symbolises the American dream. ... "Keeping up appearances- has always been important to the American middle class so they by keeping a social fazade are able to hide their problems. ...

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In the late fifties Jose founded the Philippine chapter of PEN, an international organization of poets, playwrights, and novelists. ... His works have been translated into 24 languages and have recently been published in North America by Random House Publishing. ...

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The Salem witch trials caught the interest of playwright Arthur Miller; he saw relevance in the themes and was inspired to write The Crucible. ... " Miller may not have said explicitly that he didn't agree, but his silent dissent against the FBI's insistence upon changing his screenplays to be "Pro-American" is enough for him, just as Elizabeth doesn't speak out against the hysteria, but shows dissent. ... There is a reason that church and state are separated in America's government. ...

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Yeats was a renowned poet, playwright and a senator and this elevated social position of his is shown throughout the 1st stanza of Easter 1916. ... This view can be universally appreciated even as of today as nations such as America frequently publicise the deeds of their soldiers in Afghanistan whilst the media occasionally retaliates on these claims; causing conflict. ...

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This powerful theme of domestic violence is what caused one Sydney reviewer called it 'the most pernicious book I have ever read' and commented that it made American Psycho look like a spotless lamb. ... Real identities or appearance vs. reality is a strong theme in many books; the great playwright William Shakespeare commonly used it. ...

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